- verses
- 5
- first named
- John 3:1
- last named
- John 19:42
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Nicodemus?
Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish ruling council, the Sanhedrin (Jhn.3.1). He came to Jesus at night, likely to avoid being seen, and engaged in a discussion about the need to be born again to enter the kingdom of God (Jhn.3.1-21). Later, Nicodemus defended Jesus before the Sanhedrin, reminding them that the law required a person to be heard before being judged (Jhn.7.50-51). After the crucifixion, Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes to anoint Jesus' body for burial, demonstrating his devotion to Jesus (Jhn.19.39-40). Though initially coming to Jesus in secret, Nicodemus grew to be a follower of Christ.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources