John 1:41-51 ▼

41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, |We have found the Anointed One!| (which is translated |Messiah|).

42 He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, |You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!| (which is translated |Peter|).

43 The next day, Jesus decided to go away to Galilee, where he found Philip and told him, |Follow me.|

44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip found Nathaniel and told him, |We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote—Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.|

46 Nathaniel asked him, |From Nazareth? Can anything good come from there?| Philip told him, |Come and see!|

47 Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, |Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!|

48 Nathaniel asked him, |How do you know me?| Jesus answered him, |Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.|

49 Nathaniel replied to him, |Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!|

50 Jesus told him, |Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that.|

51 Then he told him, |Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man.|