Nicodemus came to Jesus seeking, but he definitely didn't know what he was getting. Before the man could begin asking the questions, he got an answer that laid poor Nico out like he'd been hit with a spiritual right cross. "Be born again?" he sputtered, "How can a man enter into his mother and be born twice?" John 3 tells one of the great stories of the Bible. Jesus met with the teacher of the Jews who tried to tell what he knew: "We know that you are..." Jesus told the man to start over his entire life by being born again. Yeeowee! What a spiritual smack down our Lord could lay on a person. Well, of course He could, but never in anything but love did our Lord use that power.
Highly educated, honored among his people, and a ruler of the Jews, Nicodemus fit the bill for what the world might call a 'good' man. Yet, Jesus from the very start did not buy into the 'we know that you are' bit from Nicodemus. Instead, Jesus began teaching that teacher until Nicodemus was left speechless and learning. The Bible does not say that Nicodemus was saved at the moment after he asked, "How can these things be?" However we know from later references that the man came to believe in and honor Jesus, even to the point of risking all by preparing the body of Christ for burial with Joseph of Arimathea.
May God bring us to the point of learning from His Son often in these end days.
Bucky
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