Introduction:

It was on a dark night that one of the top religious leaders in Jerusalem, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, came to seek the Messiah our Lord Jesus, most likely to discuss theology and to satisfy his inquisitiveness. He was not a wilfully blind Pharisee, unlike most of his religious colleagues, but knew that something about the Lord Jesus was different. There had been undoubtedly some claiming to be sent from God and Nicodemus would have known about John the Baptist as well who was sent from God. What had drawn the attention of this religious leader were the miraculous things the Lord Jesus had been doing in and around Jerusalem. The Lord Jesus ‘cut to the chase’ with Nicodemus and clearly told him that he must be born again if he would see the kingdom of God.

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