1:50,51
Nathanael thought he had seen something (or rather, someone), but Jesus effectively tells him “you ain’t seen nothing yet”. He would see much greater things, he would realise the fullness of who Jesus is and what His mission was. Nathanael needed to look beyond what he saw at present. This is still true of Israel. Unless we see Jesus as the Son of God, the Lord of Lords we do not know Him at all. If we merely see Him as a great teacher or a good man, a great example, then we have missed it. In v51 we get the first occurrence of “very truly I tell you” (NIV), or “truly, truly” (ESV). In the Greek it is “amen, amen” (a transliteration from the Hebrew). The Greek for “you” here is plural, so what Jesus is about to say has a wider application than just Nathanael. Jesus’ words here allude to Jacob’s vision in Gen 28:12. People would see Jesus and His heavenly nature, and His human nature. The two go together. Son of Man has a messianic connection in Daniel chapter 7, but can also mean just “a man”. The term deliberately mixes the human and the divine.
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