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1 | What did Yeshua notice? | John 1:49 | parpar | 200499 | ||
Hi bigpooch. Thank you for your question. Firstly verse 49, must be considered within the context of verses 45-51, as below. Jhn 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Jhn 1:46 And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jhn 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" Jhn 1:48 Nathanael said to Him, "How do You know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Jhn 1:49 Nathanael answered and said to Him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jhn 1:50 Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these." Jhn 1:51 And He said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter[fn9] you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." This is the only time that Yeshua ever referred to anyone as an, "Israelite", or used the word, "deceit", translated, "guile", in the King James Bible. The expression, "under the fig tree", is an Hebraic euphemism for, "out door Bible study", or "out door teaching", as the fig tree has the largest leaves of any tree in that part of the world, and, therefore, under it's leaves was the best place to be for contemplation/meditation of Scripture, if you wished to do so out doors, and at the same time be protected from the sun which can be very hot at certain times of the day in Israel. It is clear that this is where Nathanael was at the time when Philip called him, and that he had been thinking about Jacob who's name means, deceitful 4, deceitfully 3, deceit 2, slothful 2, false 1, guile 1, idle 1, slack 1, but as we know this man had his name changed, see. Gen 32:28 And He said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel;[fn2] for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed." Footnote: 32:28 Literally Prince with God Nathanael was undoubtedly impressed by Yeshua's words, when He said, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!", he would no doubt ask himself, "does this man really know that when Philip called me, I was thinking about Jacob?", and, therefore, he asks, "How do You know me?", to which Yeshua replies, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Is it any wonder that Nathanael then said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Our Lords words in verses 50 - 51, are in fact saying, "Not only do I know that you were thinking about Jacob, but I actually know exactly which passage of Scripture it was you had in mind.. The passage of Scripture we now know as Genesis Ch 28. Every blessing. parpar. |
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2 | What did Yeshua notice? | John 1:49 | 10ECPreacher | 200503 | ||
parpar, Your answer is very well put. This story has fascinated me for years, and I never cease to marvel at it. It is remarkable that Jesus in this passage clearly identified Himself as the very “ladder” that Jacob had seen in his dream many hundreds of years before: Genesis 28:12-13 12 And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! 13 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. . . .” We can reasonably infer from Jesus’ words in v.51 that Nathanael was at least contemplating if not fervently desiring the coming of Messiah, of which Jacob’s dream was clearly a prophecy. In Jacob’s dream, the angels of God were “ascending and descending” on the ladder, which stood upon the earth and yet its top reached heaven. The symbolic reference here is plain: Messiah will walk on earth as a man, and yet He will also be God (v.13 “The LORD stood” at its top). Jesus said in v.51 they would see the angels of God “ascending and descending” on “the Son of Man”, a term that was a clear reference to Himself as Messiah. Nathanael had just exclaimed, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” when Jesus revealed that He had seen him under the fig tree. (Such an exclamation rivals the inspired words of Simon in Matt. 16:16 – “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!”) In the words of the illustrious apostle Paul in 1 Tim. 3:16 Amplified: “And great and important and weighty, we confess, is the hidden truth (the mystic secret) of godliness. He [God] was made visible in human flesh, justified and vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, [and] taken up in glory.” In Christ, tdc |
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