Nicodemus the Secret Seeker
Following Jesus’s burial, Nicodemus reportedly lost his Sanhedrin position for his Christian sympathies. The apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus suggests he was banished from Jerusalem and sheltered by his cousin Gamaliel. Greek tradition claims Peter and John baptized him before his martyrdom. Other accounts state he died naturally after witnessing Stephen’s stoning. In 1925, archaeologists discovered a tomb at Ramla with an inscription: “Nakdimon, son of Gorion.”
