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Howdy and welcome to the Daily Blade. This week, we're going to do a deep dive on

John chapter three. John is obviously written by the apostle John. He lives longer than any of

the other apostles. He, according to himself, is the one that Jesus loves the most. He writes a whole

bunch of Bible, honestly. He's got the gospel of John,

first, second, and third John, and the book of Revelation. And we get some insights into who Jesus is,

the character and nature of God in the gospel of John that we don't get into in the synoptic gospel.

So we're going to do a deep dive on John chapter three, beginning in verse one, the Bible says this. Now, there was a man of the Pharisees

named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, and this man came to Jesus by night and said to him, rabbi,

we know that you were a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is

with him.

All right, let's talk about Nicodemus a little bit.

He comes at night, and probably the reason is because he doesn't want anybody to know that he's talking to Jesus.

Maybe he's got peer pressure from the other Pharisees.

Maybe he's got peer pressure from the other religious leaders.

Yet he is curious enough to show up at night under the guise of darkness. And one of the beautiful things is that Jesus is going to meet him right where he is curious enough to show up at night under the guise of darkness.

And one of the beautiful things is that Jesus is going to meet him right where he is.

Now, here is a big, fat warning that I want to give you about Nicodemus.

My fear is that if you're listening to The Daily Blade, then you probably have questions

and curiosity about Christianity in the Bible and Jesus,

just like Nicodemus does.

But the problem with the Pharisees in the first century, I know they get a bad rap, but the name

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