or some other trait. The gospel calls upon us to confront these inborn dislikes and go beyond them to accept every person—regardless of how different they may seem—as a child of God. Nathanael quickly took this step when he met Jesus. Although initially his reaction to Philip’s claim to have found the one foretold by Moses was a brusque “Can anything good come from there [Nazareth]?” he soon changed his mind. All it took was a simple statement from Jesus that He had seen Nathanael under the fig tree