Background, bucks, and brains—a powerful combination. But it wasn’t enough for Nicodemus. He had a hole in his soul, and he didn’t know how to fill it. Even after drinking long at the well of religion, Nicodemus knew his soul was parched. It was that thirst that drove him to find Jesus. Nicodemus sensed something exceptional and singular about this man from Nazareth. What made hordes of people follow Him? Nicodemus had most likely heard that virtually everywhere Jesus went, He confronted death, disease,
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