Nicodemus Comes to Jesus

3 There was a man named Nicodemus who was one of the Pharisees [^Ca religious party which strictly observed OT laws and later customs] and ·an important Jewish leader [^La ruler of the Jews; ^Cprobably a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest Jewish court of the time]. ² ·One night [or By night; ^Cperhaps with connotations that he could not “see” spiritually] Nicodemus came to Jesus and said, “·Teacher [^LRabbi], we know you are a teacher sent from God, because no one can do the ·miracles [^Lsigns; 2:11] you do unless God is with him.”