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Nicodemus , in the Gospel of St. John, member of the Sanhedrin sympathetic to Jesus. He helped Joseph of Arimathea to bury him. Among the New Testament Apocrypha is a Gospel of Nicodemus.

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Nicodemus in the Bible, the Pharisee and member of the council of the Sanhedrin who visited Jesus by night, and later assisted in Jesus's burial.

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Nicodemus. The learned Jew who visited Jesus by night and evoked the discourse on Christian rebirth narrated in Jn. 3: 1–15. He is later shown helping Joseph of Arimathaea give Him burial (Jn. 19: 39).

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