slimey

John 3:1 NIV84

1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.

ὑψόω - lifted up

‎is not to be separated fr. the ‘exaltation’ into heaven, since the heavenly exaltation presupposes the earthly ; Arndt, W., Gingrich, F. W., Danker, F. W., & Bauer, W. (1996). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature : A translation and adaption of the fourth revised and augmented edition of Walter Bauer's Griechisch-deutsches Worterbuch zu den Schrift en des Neuen Testaments und der ubrigen urchristlichen Literatur (850). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.