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.” 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!”

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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