John 1:48

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling thee -- thou being under the fig-tree -- I saw thee.'

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  • John 2:25 : 25 and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.
  • Isa 65:24 : 24 And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.
  • Matt 6:6 : 6 `But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who `is' in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.
  • Ps 139:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. 2 Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
  • Rev 2:18-19 : 18 `And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass; 19 I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last `are' more than the first.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
  • 1 Cor 14:25 : 25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
  • Gen 32:24-30 : 24 And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn; 25 and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him; 26 and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.' 27 And he saith unto him, `What `is' thy name?' and he saith, `Jacob.' 28 And he saith, `Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.' 29 And Jacob asketh, and saith, `Declare, I pray thee, thy name;' and he saith, `Why `is' this, thou askest for My name?' and He blesseth him there. 30 And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for `I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'

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  • John 1:49-51
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    49Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'

    50Jesus answered and said to him, `Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;'

    51and he saith to him, `Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'

  • John 1:42-47
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    42and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, `Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)

    43On the morrow, he willed to go forth to Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, `Be following me.'

    44And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter;

    45Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who `is' from Nazareth;'

    46and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'

    47Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

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    13and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,

    14and Jesus answering said to it, `No more from thee -- to the age -- may any eat fruit;' and his disciples were hearing.

  • John 3:9-11
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    9Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

    10Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

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    19and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, `No more from thee may fruit be -- to the age;' and forthwith the fig-tree withered.

    20And the disciples having seen, did wonder, saying, `How did the fig-tree forthwith wither?'

  • Acts 8:30-31
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    30and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'

    31and he said, `Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

  • 39He saith to them, `Come and see;' they came, and saw where he doth remain, and with him they remained that day and the hour was about the tenth.

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    29And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

    30when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;

  • 9Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?

  • 37And Jesus said to him, `Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;'

  • John 3:1-2
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    1And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

    2this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

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    20And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

    21and Peter having remembered saith to him, `Rabbi, lo, the fig-tree that thou didst curse is dried up.'

  • 50Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them,

  • 4and having run forward before, he went up on a sycamore, that he may see him, because through that `way' he was about to pass by.

  • 29`Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

  • John 8:56-58
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    56Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

    57The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'

    58Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

  • 32`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer `is' nigh,

  • 28`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;

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    21these then came near to Philip, who `is' from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, `Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'

    22Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

  • 6And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

  • 34Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'

  • 10In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do call, each unto his neighbour, Unto the place of the vine, And unto the place of the fig-tree!'

  • 37and the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

  • 4Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?'

  • 5Jesus then having lifted up `his' eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' --

  • 10And the trees say to the fig, Come thou, reign over us.

  • 7if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

  • 45and he who is beholding me, doth behold Him who sent me;

  • 31and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.

  • 24and he, having looked up, said, `I behold men, as I see trees, walking.'

  • 35and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.

  • 30now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.'