46 And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see!”

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Look! A true Israelite[a] in whom is no deceit!” 48 Nathanael said to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you[b] were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:47 Literally “truly an Israelite”
  2. John 1:48 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were”) which is understood as temporal