I came upon Jesus quite by accident. We didn't travel in the same circles, so it was unlikely that we would ever have met socially. I was passing through the marketplace in Jerusalem one day when I heard him speaking to a handful of people who had stopped to listen. "Just another wandering street-preacher," I thought to myself. But as I passed by I heard him talking about the Kingdom of God, and about God himself, in such unsophisticated terms, uncluttered with a lot of theology, that I could see he was having an impact upon his audience which we more learned scholars could never have. He spoke of God in terms of personal experience, and he appeared so warm and approachable that I was immediately attracted to him. My name is Nicodemus. I am a professor of religion at the university in Jeru…