John 1:28-46

²⁸These things were done in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹The next day John saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Look, there is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

³⁰This is the one of whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is more than me, for he was before me.'

³¹I did not know him, but it was so that he could be revealed to Israel that I came baptizing with water.”

³²John testified, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it stayed upon him.

³³I did not recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, he is the one baptizing in the Holy Spirit.'

³⁴I have both seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

³⁵Again, the next day, as John was standing with two of his disciples,

³⁶they saw Jesus walking by, and John said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

³⁷His two disciples heard him say this and they followed Jesus.

³⁸Then Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What do you want?” They replied, “Rabbi (which translated means teacher), where are you staying?”

³⁹He said to them, “Come and see.” Then they came and saw where he was staying; they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰One of the two who heard John speak and then followed Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

⁴¹He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated is: Christ).

⁴²He brought him to Jesus, and Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).

⁴³The next day, when Jesus wanted to leave to go to Galilee, he found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”

⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

⁴⁵Philip found Nathaniel and said to him, “He of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, we have found him: Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”

⁴⁶Nathaniel said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”