Youll remember that John the Baptist pointed Jesus out to Peter, Andrew and John and then and they approached Jesus. Some scholars speculate that Philip may have also been a disciple of John the Baptist, since: Before Jesus famously fed the crowd of more than 5,000 people, he decided to test Philip: When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat? He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. What am I talking about? 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. [2][6], Although Nathanael is sometimes identified with Bartholomew the Apostle mentioned in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts 1:13. He had found the messiah. He is called Nathanael in John 1. And we should talk about them. And this business about the angels of God ascending and descending? We know Jesus called them all before the foundations of the world. But why does John refer to his fellow disciple as Nathanael while the other gospel writers list him as Bartholomew? Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. So When Jesus tested his faith, Phillip responded with unbelief. After the resurrection, Nathanael would go on to be a key leader in the early church, taking the gospel to the ends of the earth as commissioned by his lord and savior. Nathanael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin that means "God has given." In the Bible, Nathanael came from Cana in Galilee and was an early follower of Jesus. Little is written about him the Gospels and book of Acts. Nathanael (Hebrew , Greek: , "God has given"), also known as Nathaniel [1] of Cana was a disciple of Jesus, mentioned only in chapters 1 and 21 of the Gospel of John . When you know the Lord, it affects the way you speak and act and live. In other words between all the disciples -- at least 12 of them and probably more like 70 -- all they had was eight months worth of a single laborers wages. . However, this tradition largely originates with Acts of Philip, a dubious fourth-century text which intermingled true accounts with legends, including a narrative involving a dragon. [2] Philip and Nathanael: Friends to All | BibleTalk.tv Though Cana itself was not a particularly remarkable village, Nathanaels disdain for Nazareth indicates a certain civic pride and pretension on the part of the Nathanael.