Today in our Gospel lesson we hear about Nicodemus. He’s a Pharisee, probably a member of the Sanhedrin, a council of Jewish religious leaders, and he comes to see Jesus by night. Presumably, at night, because he doesn’t want anyone else to know what he’s up to. We hear that he already acknowledges that Jesus “come[s] from God” and that “God is with him.” He wants to learn more. We could say that he’s coming in from the darkness of night and approaching Jesus, the light­, “the true light” that came “into the world.”
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