Nicodemus, a popular Jewish Rabbi, comes to Jesus at night.
After the scene in the Temple it’s probably not safe for him to be seen
collaborating with Jesus. There’s a lot of pressure for Nicodemus to reject
Jesus as God’s revelation. What pressures do you face when it comes to faith
and belief? Do you feel safe to ask sincere questions in your community? Are
you following the leading of the Spirit and your conscience or just moving
along with the religious crowd? Nicodemus is a lead teacher in Jerusalem, but
he doesn’t have most of the answers. Jesus is the ‘Teacher’ who has come from
above and this Teacher replaces all the former teachers, just as Jesus replaces
the old way of purification and the Temple itself.
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