John 1:37-51

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³⁷ Then John’s two disciples turned and followed Jesus.

³⁸ Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them.

“Sir,” they replied, “where do you live?”

³⁹ “Come and see,” he said. So they went with him to the place where he was staying and were with him from about four o’clock that afternoon until the evening. ⁴⁰ (One of these men was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.)

⁴¹ Andrew then went to find his brother Peter and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” ⁴² And he brought Peter to meet Jesus.

Jesus looked intently at Peter for a moment and then said, “You are Simon, John’s son—but you shall be called Peter, the rock!”

⁴³ The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and told him, “Come with me.” ⁴⁴ (Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter’s hometown.)

⁴⁵ Philip now went off to look for Nathanael and told him, “We have found the Messiah!—the very person Moses and the prophets told about! His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth!”

⁴⁶ “Nazareth!” exclaimed Nathanael. “Can anything good come from there?”

“Just come and see for yourself,” Philip declared.

⁴⁷ As they approached, Jesus said, “Here comes an honest man—a true son of Israel.”

⁴⁸ “How do you know what I am like?” Nathanael demanded.

And Jesus replied, “I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you.”

⁴⁹ Nathanael replied, “Sir, you are the Son of God—the King of Israel!”

⁵⁰ Jesus asked him, “Do you believe all this just because I told you I had seen you under the fig tree? You will see greater proofs than this. ⁵¹ You will even see heaven open and the angels of God coming back and forth to me, the Messiah.”^[a]