{ "schemaVersion": 1, "kind": "event", "id": "first-disciples-gathered", "era": "life-of-jesus", "order": 318, "title": "First Disciples Gathered", "group": "early-ministry", "date": { "kind": "relative", "label": "Preparation and early ministry", "note": "A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence." }, "summary": "Two of John’s disciples follow Jesus. Andrew brings Simon, and Philip brings Nathanael, who moves from skepticism about Nazareth to confession. Jesus promises that they will see greater things.", "context": "John describes early encounters without making them identical in every detail to the later fishing-call narratives. The unnamed disciple is not given a certain identity, and the sequence moves toward Galilee without naming every meeting place.", "question": "What do the repeated invitations to come and see accomplish?", "locationNote": "John describes encounters following the Baptist’s witness and a decision to go to Galilee, but no secure location for every encounter or for Jesus’s lodging.", "passages": [ { "reference": "John 1:35–51", "range": [ 43001035, 43001051 ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201%3A35%E2%80%9351&version=BSB", "availability": "bundled", "verses": [ { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "The next day John was there again with two of his disciples." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "And when the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked. They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "“Come and see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ)." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter)." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, “Follow Me.”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "text": "“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip." }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "text": "When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "text": "“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "text": "“Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "text": "Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”" }, { "book": "John", "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "text": "Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”" } ] } ], "related": [ { "range": [ 1028010, 1028017 ], "kind": "teaching", "note": "Jesus’s image of ascending and descending angels recalls Jacob’s vision.", "reference": "Genesis 28:10–17", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2028%3A10%E2%80%9317&version=BSB" } ], "places": [], "mapPeriod": "gospel-land", "further": [], "provenance": { "sources": [ { "name": "theographic", "ref": "270" }, { "name": "editorial" } ], "review": "draft" }, "eraName": "Life of Jesus", "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=first-disciples-gathered", "attribution": [ "Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. This adapted data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.", "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.", "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.", "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm" ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/first-disciples-gathered/", "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/first-disciples-gathered/index.md", "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/first-disciples-gathered/index.json", "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.", "revision": "b1a259c4e3fe46c0" }