Philip left home with a group of friends from the same small town. They journeyed into the wilderness to hear the preacher called John the Baptizer. These young men were devout believers; they studied their Scriptures; they prayed and hoped and waited for the Messiah to come. And then one day, John the Baptizer stopped saying that the Messiah was near and instead pointed and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). Philip knew his search was over.

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⁴³The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”
⁴⁴Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
⁴⁶“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.
“Come and see,” said Philip.
⁴⁷When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.”
⁴⁸“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.
Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
⁴⁹Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”

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