There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
John 3:10
Jesus answered and said to him, 'Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!
John 7:47-49
47
The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, 'Have ye also been led astray?
48
did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?
49
but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'