John 1:43-46
Come and see
He finds Nathanael and names Moses and the prophets and then says Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. The objection about Nazareth is met with three words rather than a defence.
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Philip
Answered an impossible question with a budget, and asked for the one thing he had been looking at for three years.
Philip is from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter, and he is found rather than finding. The day after he is called he goes to Nathanael with a summary of the whole Old Testament and a town name that ruins it, and when the objection comes he does not argue. He appears three more times in John and each one is a question. He is the practical one, the man who counts, and the gospel uses him to ask what everyone is thinking.
Scroll down to the storyThe movements, in the order the text gives them.
The story of Philip
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John 6:5-7
Two hundred pennyworth is not sufficient
Asked where they shall buy bread, he answers with the cost rather than the source. John notes that the question was asked to prove him, and that Jesus knew what he would do.
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John 12:20-22
The Greeks who asked for him
They come to Philip, probably because of his Greek name. He does not take them straight in; he tells Andrew, and the two go together.
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John 14:8-11
Show us the Father
He asks for one more thing and says it will be enough. The answer is that he that has seen me has seen the Father, and the question folded into it is about how long they have been together.
Why it matters
John gives him the two most useful wrong answers in the book. Asked where bread can be bought for five thousand, he prices it instead of answering, two hundred pennyworth is not enough that every one may take a little, and the text says the question was a test. And at the last supper he says show us the Father and it suffices us, and the reply is the sentence the whole gospel has been building towards: have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me.
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The music
Every song in the catalogue whose passage falls inside these chapters.
