Comparison and Contrast Are a Powerful Way to Teach

Nicodemus happens to be a Pharisee. If you were to do a public opinion poll in the first century among these people about his righteousness, he would rate likely very high because he's zealous for keeping the law. And how would the people in Saikar look at the woman that meets him at the well? That she's kind of a religious outcast. She's a sinner. So this is important. Nicodemus is going to drop out of our story largely until the very end of Jesus's life three years later. Watching a dead body makes one ritually impure. You might ask in which episode who seems to figure out who Jesus