46 [a]Then Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come, and see.

47 [b]Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, Behold indeed an Israelite, in whom is no guile.

48 [c]Nathanael said unto him, Whence knewest thou me? Jesus answered, and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:46 We must especially take heed of false presumptions, which shut up against us the entrance to Christ.
  2. John 1:47 Simple uprightness discerneth the true Israelites from the false.
  3. John 1:48 The end of miracles is to set before us Christ the Almighty, and also the only author of our salvation, that we may apprehend him by faith.

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