Prologue of Ohrid Feb 20

CONTEMPLATION

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with Nicodemus (John, Chapter 3):

* How Nicodemus, though a teacher in Israel, did not perfectly comprehend spiritual things;

* How our Lord intentionally began the conversation with the question of spiritual birth—a question most inaccessible to the mind of Nicodemus—so as by this to bring Nicodemus to meekness and then to further cultivate him as a good field;

* How in the beginning Nicodemus approached Christ with hesitation and shyness (as even today most of our scholars do), but afterward more boldly.

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