Category:Nathaniel

John 1:43 - 1:44 - 1:45 - 1:46 - 1:47 - 1:48 - 1:49 - 1:50 - 1:51

'''1:43. On the following day, He wanted to go into Galilee, and He found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow Me.”'''

1:44. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

1:45. Philip found Nathaniel and said to him, “We have found Him about whom the Prophets and Moses in the Law wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.”

1:46. Nathaniel said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

1:47. Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to Him and He said about him, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.”

1:48. Nathaniel said to Him, “From where do You know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

'''1:49. Nathaniel answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.”'''

1:50. Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' you believe; greater things than these shall you see.”

1:51. Jesus said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you shall see heaven opened and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Nathanael or Nathaniel - Given or gift of God, one of our Lord's disciples, "of Cana in Galilee" (John 21:2). He was "an Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile" (John 1:47 - 1:48). His name occurs only in the Gospel of John, who in his list of the disciples never mentions Bartholomew, with whom he has consequently been identified. He was one of those to whom the Lord showed Himself alive after His Resurrection, at the Sea of Tiberias.