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John 3:1

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

KJV

Ἦν δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων, Νικόδημος ὄνομα αὐτῷ, ἄρχων τῶν Ἰουδαίων·

Greek NT

Erat autem homo ex pharisæis, Nicodemus nomine, princeps Judæorum.

Vulgate

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

ASV

And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Νικόδημος
nikodemos
noun · 5×
Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἄρχων
archon
noun · 37×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
Ἰουδαῖος
ioudaios
adjective · 193×
o
article · 19778×
ὄνομα
onoma
noun · 228×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • John 1:24 — And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
  • John 3:10 — Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
  • John 7:47 — Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
  • John 7:50 — Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
  • John 19:39 — And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
  • John 19:39 — And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
  • Luke 23:13 — And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,