John 1

After the prologue of John, we meet John the Baptist as well as several of Jesus' disciples:

Andrew who is bringing somone to Jesus everytime we encounter him in scripture

Peter who is renamed by Jesus based on his potential

Philip who overcomes his prejudices to recognize Jesus as the one Moses had prophesied

and Nathaniel, who may be the same person referred to as Bartholemew in the other gospels.




In tune with the stated purpose of the book,
(. . . these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name. John 20:31)
John the Baptist and these new disciples testify to who Jesus is:


v. 36 John exclaimed, “Look, here is the Lamb of God!”

v. 41 Andrew said, “We have the found the Messiah.”

v. 45 Philip said, “We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote.”

v. 49 Nathaniel replied, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”