Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael
43qThe next day Jesus decided rto go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44Now sPhilip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45Philip found tNathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom uMoses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus vof Nazareth, wthe son of Joseph.” 46Nathanael said to him, x“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” 47Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, yan Israelite indeed, zin whom there is no deceit!” 48Nathanael said to him, “How ado you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49Nathanael answered him, b“Rabbi, cyou are the Son of God! You are the dKing of Israel!” 50Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 51And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you,13 you will see eheaven opened, and fthe angels of God ascending and descending on gthe Son of Man.”
Footnotes
- 13 1:51 The Greek for you is plural; twice in this verse
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