Thematic Bible: Secret discipleship, examples of


Thematic Bible



After this, Joseph, of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him remove Jesus' body, and Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph went and took the body down. Verse ConceptsCowardiceFaith, Growth InJews, TheSecrecyFear Of ManMyrrhAsking PermissionJesus CorpseFear Of EnemiesTaking Care Of Your Body


Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews. This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues, Verse ConceptsSecret DiscipleshipCommitment, to Jesus ChristPersecution, Forms OfSynagogueFear Of ManDisfellowshipExcommunicationFearing Other PeopleThose Who Believed In ChristThose Who Did Not Tellconfessing