Jesus’
First Disciples
35 The next
day John was there again with two of his disciples.
36 When he
saw Jesus passing by, he said,
LOOK THE LAMB
OF GOD!
37 When the
two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
38 Turning
around, Jesus saw them following and asked,
What do
you want?
They said,
Rabbi (which means Teacher), where are you staying?
39 Come, He
replied, and you will see.
So they went
and saw where he was staying,
And spent the
day with Him.
It was about
the tenth hour.
40 Andrew,
Simon Peter’s brother,
Was one of
the two who heard what John had said
And who had
followed Jesus.
41 The first
thing Andrew did
Was to find
his brother Simon and tell him,
We have found
the Messiah (that is, the Christ).
42 Then he
brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said,
You are Simon
son of John.
You will be
called Cephas (which when translated, is Peter).
Jesus
Calls Philip and Nathaniel
43 The next
day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee.
Finding
Philip, He said to him, Follow me.
44 Philip,
like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida.
45 Philip
found Nathaniel and told him,
We have found
the one Moses wrote about in the Law,
And about
whom the prophets also wrote--
Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
46 Nazareth!
Can anything good come from there?
Nathanael
asked.
Come and see,
said Philip.
47 When Jesus
saw Nathaniel approaching, he said of him,
Here is a
true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.
48 How do you
know me? Nathaneal asked.
Jesus
answered,
I saw you
while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.
49 Then
Nathaniel declared, Rabbi, you are the Son of God;
You are the
King of Israel.
50 Jesus
said, you believe because I told you
I saw you
under the fig tree.
You shall see
greater thing than that.
51 He then
added,
I tell you
the truth, you shall see heaven open,
And the
angels of God
Ascending and
descending on the Son of Man.
(John
1:35-51)
It should
be noted that the Gospel of John
Is the only
time John the Baptist
Addresses
Jesus as The Lamb of God.
In the other
three Gospels
Jesus is
named the One Who would Baptize in the Holy Spirit.
How simple
the calling of the first Disciples was,
Except for
Nathaniel who was shown a miracle,
given a word
of knowledge,
And the
promised of greater miracles to come.
Christ Jesus
also renames Cephas to Peter,
Foretelling
what was to come for Peter.
These first
Disciples believed that John the Baptist was from God
And believe
him when he called Jesus, The Lamb of God;
The One Moses
wrote about, the Messiah.
How easily
they believed in Jesus as the Son of God
When most of
the religious leaders never did,
To their
shame, and ultimately their Destruction.
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