Hey internet: I was recently given the chance to preach at my church, St. Peter's Anglican, on the Second Sunday of Lent. The sermon audio is now online. If you've got 23 minutes to spare, give it a listen!
First, here are the passages:
Then, make sure to ignore my two seconds of speech from 16:35-16:37 in the audio, I departed from my notes -- which ended at "Nicodemus then fades from the narrative," (which he does in the passage at hand) -- and said that Nicodemus apparently never gets it and never shows up again. As I was quickly reminded after the service, he does appear twice more in John's Gospel. Oops! Next time I'll stick to my notes and not make any extemporaneous comments about minor characters without thinking through the context first.
Grace and Peace
~Josh