John 1:43
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| John 1:43 | |
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← 1:42 1:44 → | |
.jpg) "Jesus called Philip to follow Him" (Bible Illustrations by Jim Padgett, Sweet Media, 1984). | |
| Book | Gospel of John |
| Christian Bible part | New Testament |
John 1:43 is the 43rd verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort this verse is:
- Τῇ ἐπαύριον ἠθέλησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐξελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν, καὶ εὑρίσκει Φίλιππον, καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ, Ἀκολούθει μοι.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
- The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
The New International Version translates the passage as:
- The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, "Follow me."
Analysis
The "next day" is the fourth of the days tracked by John in his opening chapter.[1] Irish Archbishop John McEvilly writes that "it would appear that Jesus found Philip either on the way or in Galilee itself.[2] The Contemporary English Version offers a translation of this verse as "The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. There he met Philip ...",[3] and Eugene Peterson likewise suggests that "when he got there, he ran across Philip".[4]
Cornelius à Lapide notes that Galilee was known as a fishing village and it was there that Jesus sought his Apostles because the Galileans "were poor and ignoble in comparison with the Jews who were from the line of Judah, which was a royal linage". Lapide also believes that Jesus did not chance upon Philip, but found him and called him with an external calling, unlike Peter and Andrew who were called by "an inward inspiration".[5] Alexander Maclaren notes that Philip was not himself looking for Jesus, unlike the first disciples, to whom the invitation "what do you seek?" had been addressed.[6]
