37. The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus.
38. Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which translated means Teacher), “where are you staying?”
39. He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon.
40. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus.
41. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated Anointed).
42. Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).
43. The next day he decided to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
44. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.
45. Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”
46. But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite. There is no duplicity in him.”
48. Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”