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Gospel Reading - Calling of Nathanael

⁴³The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and told him, “Come with me.” ⁴⁴(Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter’s hometown.)

⁴⁵Philip now went off to look for Nathanael and told him, “We have found the Messiah!—the very person Moses and the prophets told about! His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth!”

⁴⁶“Nazareth!” exclaimed Nathanael. “Can anything good come from there?”

“Just come and see for yourself,” Philip declared.

⁴⁷As they approached, Jesus said, “Here comes an honest man—a true son of Israel.”

⁴⁸“How do you know what I am like?” Nathanael demanded.

And Jesus replied, “I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you.”

⁴⁹Nathanael replied, “Sir, you are the Son of God—the King of Israel!”

⁵⁰Jesus asked him, “Do you believe all this just because I told you I had seen you under the fig tree? You will see greater proofs than this. ⁵¹You will even see heaven open and the angels of God coming back and forth to me, the Messiah.”^a

1. Literally, “the Son of Man.”