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Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Nicodemus
- Saint.birth_place
- Galilee
- Saint.death_place
- Judea
- Saint.image
- Brooklyn_Museum_-_Nicodemus_(Nicodème)_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg
- Saint.caption
- Nicodemus by James Tissot,
- Saint.titles
- Defender of Jesus
- Saint.feast_day
- Various (see ): 3rdSunday of Pascha, 2August, 3August, 31August
- Saint.canonized_date
- Pre-Congregation
- Saint.attributes
- Pharisee
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- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Palestine
- Place of death
- Judea
- Image
- Compianto Orselina 2009 022.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Nicodemus ben Gurion
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- Nicodemus
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- 0100-00-00
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- Nicodemus
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- Category:Nicodemus
- feast day
- August 31
- floruit
- 0100-00-00
- P12749
- Scaphognathus
- P8168
- Zbigniew Namysłowski
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- Νικόδημος
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Nicodemus is a New Testament figure venerated as a saint in a number of Christian traditions. He is depicted as a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin who is drawn to hear Jesus's teachings. Like Lazarus, Nicodemus is not mentioned in the synoptic Gospels, but only by John, who devotes more than half of Chapter 3 of his gospel and a few verses of Chapter 7 to Nicodemus; and, lastly, mentions him in Chapter 19.
Nicodemus is considered in both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions to have secretly been a disciple of Jesus on the basis of the narrative in John 19; there is no explicit mention of his discipleship in the Gospel of John. Owing to his insistence on a hearing for Jesus according to Jewish law, Nicodemus is sometimes called "defender of Jesus".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nicodemus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.