a disciple of Jesus Christ, a Jew by nation, and a Pharisee,
John iii, 1, &c. At the time when the priests and Pharisees had sent
officers to seize Jesus, Nicodemus declared himself openly in his
favour, John vii, 45, &c; and still more so when he went with Joseph of
Arimathea to pay the last duties to his body, which they took down from
the cross, embalmed, and laid in a sepulchre.
John iii, 1, &c. At the time when the priests and Pharisees had sent
officers to seize Jesus, Nicodemus declared himself openly in his
favour, John vii, 45, &c; and still more so when he went with Joseph of
Arimathea to pay the last duties to his body, which they took down from
the cross, embalmed, and laid in a sepulchre.