John 7:50
Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
KJV
λέγει Νικόδημος πρὸς αὐτούς, εἷς ὢν ἐξ αὐτῶν·
Greek NT
Dixit Nicodemus ad eos, ille qui venit ad eum nocte, qui unus erat ex ipsis :
Vulgate
Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them),
ASV
Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one of them):
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Νικόδημος
nikodemos
noun · 5×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ἐλθὼν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐλθὼν | RP: + νυκτὸς
- ἐλθὼν — SBLGNT
- ἐλθὼν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + νυκτὸς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: πρότερον | WH/Treg: πρότερον | NIV: τὸ πρότερον
- πρότερον — SBLGNT
- πρότερον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
- τὸ πρότερον — Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§595Among the religious authorities of Jerusalem, not only were the Pharisee Nicodemus and the prominent Joseph of Arimathea both secret disciples of Jesus, but there was also long-standing dissension about him, so much so that St. John says of these authorities on the very eve of Christ's Passion, "many.. . believed in him", though very imperfectly.378 This is not surprising, if o…
1. There is nothing clearer, nothing simpler than the truth, if we deal not perversely; just as (on the other hand) if we deal perversely, nothing is more difficult. For behold, the Scribes and Pharisees, who seemed forsooth to be wiser than other men, being ever with Christ for the sake of plotting against Him, and beholding His miracles, and reading the Scriptures, were nothi…
Cross-references
- Exod 23:2 — Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
- John 3:1 — There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
- 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.
- Ps 94:16 — Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?