Jesus’ appearance to his disciples on the evening of the day of resurrection, when the disciples were behind locked doors because of fear, might be said to be foreshadowed by the story of Nicodemus. Yesterday, we had the beginning of this encounter. Nicodemus traveled in the darkness of night to reach Jesus. Nicodemus was an educated man with a position. He was among the rulers “of the Judeans.”[1] He believed that God himself had sent Jesus as a teacher—perhaps as a prophet. With today’s continuation of the narrative, Jesus took the conversation in a direction that Nicodemus did not grasp. Jesus said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without begin born again, from above.”[2]
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