John 1:28-46

²⁸This happened at Bethany, across the Jordan, where John was baptising.

²⁹The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him, and exclaimed, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

³⁰I was taking about him when I said ‘After me there is coming a man who ranks ahead of me, because before I was born he already was.’

³¹I did not know who he was, but I have come baptising with water to make him known to Israel.”

³²John also said: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven like a dove and rest on him.

³³I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptise with water, he said to me ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him — he it is who baptises with the Holy Spirit.’

³⁴This I have seen myself, and I have declared my belief that he is the Son of God.”

³⁵The next day, when John was standing with two of his disciples,

³⁶he looked at Jesus as he passed and exclaimed, “There is the Lamb of God!”

³⁷The two disciples heard him say this, and followed Jesus.

³⁸But Jesus turned around, and saw them following. “What are you looking for?” he asked. “Rabbi,” they answered (or, as we should say, ‘Teacher’), “where are you staying?”

³⁹“Come, and you will see,” he replied. So they went, and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four in the afternoon.

⁴⁰One of the two, who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

⁴¹He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (a word which means ‘Christ,’ or ‘Consecrated’.)

⁴²Then he brought him to Jesus. Looking straight at him, Jesus said, “You are Simon, the son of John; you will be called Cephas” (which means ‘Peter,’ or ‘Rock’).

⁴³The following day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. He found Philip, and said to him, “Follow me.”

⁴⁴Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

⁴⁵He found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and of whom the prophets also wrote — Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son!”

⁴⁶“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” asked Nathanael. “Come and see,” replied Philip.