Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St John 1:42-50 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

42. And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter.

43. On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip. And Jesus saith to him: Follow me.

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

45. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.

46. And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.

47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

48. Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

49. Nathanael answered him, and said: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.

50. Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these shalt thou see.