Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Nicodemus replied, “How can these things be?”

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”