John 1:35–51

³⁵The next day, John was standing with two of his disciples. ³⁶When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

³⁷The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus. ³⁸When Jesus turned and noticed them following him, he asked them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to him, “Rabbi”^b (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”

³⁹“Come and you’ll see,” he replied. So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon.^E

⁴⁰Andrew,^c Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed him. ⁴¹He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah”^Fd (which is translated “the Christ”),^{e 42}and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, he said, “You are Simon, son of John.^G You will be called Cephas”^f (which is translated “Peter”^H).

PHILIP AND NATHANAEL

⁴³The next day Jesus^I decided to leave for Galilee. He found Philip^g and told him, “Follow me.”

⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida,^h the hometown of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanaelⁱ and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law (and so did the prophets^j): Jesus the son of Joseph,^k from Nazareth.”^l

⁴⁶“Can anything good^m come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

⁴⁷Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Here truly is an Israeliteⁿ in whom there is no deceit.”

⁴⁸“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

⁴⁹“Rabbi,”^o Nathanael replied, “You are the Son^p of God; you are the King of Israel!”^q

⁵⁰Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.” ⁵¹Then he said, “Truly I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God^r ascending and descending^s on the Son of Man.”^t