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Nicodemus

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Nicodemus (lived 1st century AD)

In the New Testament, a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin (supreme court in Jerusalem), a ‘man of authority among the Jews’. Jesus won his secret allegiance and described new birth in the spirit to him (John 3). Nicodemus argued for a fair and legal trial of Jesus and joined Joseph of Arimathaea in providing an honourable burial for him.



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Dental surgeons suggested doctors, doctors suggested death, death suggested skeletons--and so, by a logical process the conversation melted out of one of these subjects and into the next, until the topic of skeletons raised up Nicodemus Dodge out of the deep grave in my memory where he had lain buried and forgotten for twenty-five years.
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Tell me when the kettle boils, and don't step on Nicodemus, whatever you do.
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``It is true as the gospel of Saint Nicodemus,'' said the Prior; ``he swore, with many a cruel north-country oath, that he would hang me up on the highest tree in the greenwood.
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