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Yochanan 1:40-51

Yochanan 1:40-51 TOJB2011

One of the two was the achi Shim'on Kefa. His name was Andrew. He was one of the two who heard Yochanan and followed him. Andrew first finds his own achi Shim'on Kefa and says to him, We have found the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach! — the word, being translated, means “Messiah”. Andrew led Shim'on to Yehoshua. When Yehoshua gazed at Shim'on, he said, You are Shim'on Bar-Yonah. You will be called Kefa, which is translated Petros. On the next day he wanted to go out into the Galil, and he finds Philippos, and says to Philippos, Follow me. Now Philippos was from Beit-Tzaidah, the shtetl of Andrew and Kefa. Philippos finds Natan'el and says to him, He whom Moshe wrote of in the Sefer Torah, he whom the Nevi'im also wrote of — Yehoshua ben Yosef [ben Dovid], from Natzeret we have found! And Natan'el said to Philippos, Can anything good come out of Natzeret? Philippos says to Natan'el, Bo'u u're'u! (Come and see!) Yehoshua saw Natan'el coming to him, and he says, Hinei a genuine Ben Yisroel, in whom is no MIRMAH (deceit). Natan'el says to him, How do you have da'as of me? In reply, Yehoshua said to him, Before you received your kri'ah (call) from Philippos, while you were beneath the etz hate'enah (fig tree), I watched you. In reply, Natan'el said to him, Rebbe, you are the Ben HaElohim, the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of Yisroel. In reply, Yehoshua said to Natan'el, Because I told you that I watched you beneath the etz hate'enah, do you have emunah (faith)? Greater than these things you will see. And he says to Natan'el, Omein, omein, I say to you, you will see Shomayim having been opened and malachim (angels) of HASHEM ascending and descending on the Bar Enosh.

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