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Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, the one from Nazareth. And Nathanael said to him: Can anything good be from Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see. And when Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he says about him: Behold, truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile. Nathanael says to him: From where do you know me? Jesus answered and said to him, before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you. Nathanael answered and said to him: Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel. Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe? You will see greater things than these. And he said to him: Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see the heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. And on the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee” and what follows, in order to show that after the forty days of temptation and after his return from the temptation and his departure for Nazareth and Galilee, as the other three evangelists said, he came again to the Jordan; as will be shown also from the word of John, who said thus when he saw him coming on the next day, he says, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” And again on the other day when he saw him walking about, he said: “This is he of whom I said to you, the one coming after me has come before me, because he was before me”; 2.267 “And John testified,” he says, “saying that I have seen the spirit in the form of a dove descending and coming upon him.” But the “testified” and the “this is he of whom I said to you,” speaking as if about another and different time already passed, in order to show that this time was not the same as that of the baptism, but another besides that one. For he does not arrive at John immediately from the temptation, but first to Galilee, and then from Galilee to the Jordan, which was this to John *;wherefore he says that “this was he of whom I said to you” and further the gospel says “and John testified that I have seen,” as if the event had already happened some time before. 14. After these things, the beginning of the calling of those around Peter from Andrew is signified. For Andrew, one of the two who had followed him, went up with him, being disciples of John, but still remaining in Galilee and from time to time devoting themselves to John. And immediately when Andrew had stayed that day, it was about the tenth hour, it happened on that same day that he met his own brother Simon and said the aforementioned things, that we have found the Messiah, and brought him to the Lord and what follows, and as the sequence has it, that he said to him: you shall be called Cephas. “And on the next day he wished,” it says, “to go out to Galilee and finds Philip and Jesus says to him: Follow me. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter.” And you see that it gives us to understand this, that of the two who followed, being disciples of John, he mentioned the name of only one, that it was Andrew, but he did not mention the other; so that we may understand this one whose name he did not mention, on account of being from the same place, on account of being a tent-mate, on account of having the same trade, on account of working together, to be either John or James, one of the sons of Zebedee. For it was necessary for these to be called first, 2.268 then Philip, according to the sequence as it is arranged in the gospels; Peter first, then Andrew, then James, then John, after these Philip. But let us for now refrain from speaking about these things; for the sequence of this matter is long. 15. But we must return to the point in question * which is to understand, that just as for the

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ἔγραψε Μωυσῆς ἐν τῷ νόμῳ καὶ οἱ προφῆται εὑρήκαμεν, Ἰησοῦν υἱὸν Ἰωσὴφ τὸν ἀπὸ Ναζαρέτ. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ναθαναήλ· ἐκ Ναζαρὲτ δύναταί τι ἀγαθὸν εἶναι; λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Φίλιππος· ἔρχου καὶ ἴδε. ἰδὼν δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς τὸν Ναθαναὴλ ἐρχόμενον πρὸς αὐτὸν λέγει περὶ αὐτοῦ· ἴδε ἀληθῶς Ἰσραηλίτης, ἐν ᾧ δόλος οὐκ ἔστι. λέγει αὐτῷ Ναθαναήλ· πόθεν με γινώσκεις; ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, πρὸ τοῦ σε Φίλιππον φωνῆσαι ὄντα ὑπὸ τὴν συκῆν εἶδόν σε. ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ Ναθαναὴλ καὶ εἶπε· Ῥαββί, σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, σὺ εἶ ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ὅτι εἶπόν σοι ὅτι εἶδόν σε ὑποκάτω τῆς συκῆς, πιστεύεις; μείζονα τούτων ὄψει. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὄψεσθε τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνεῳγότα καὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους τοῦ θεοῦ ἀναβαίνοντας καὶ καταβαίνοντας ἐπὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. καὶ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ γάμος ἐγένετο ἐν Κανᾷ τῆς Γαλιλαίας» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, ἵνα δείξῃ μετὰ τὰς τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας τοῦ πειρασμοῦ καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ πειρασμοῦ ἐπάνοδον καὶ ὁρμὴν τὴν ἐπὶ Ναζαρὲτ καὶ Γαλιλαίαν, ὡς οἱ ἄλλοι τρεῖς εὐαγγελισταὶ ἔφησαν, πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην αὐτὸν ἡκέναι· ὡς καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ λόγου Ἰωάννου δειχθήσεται, φήσαντος οὕτως ὅτε εἶδεν αὐτὸν ἐρχόμενον τῇ ἐπαύριον λέγει «ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου». καὶ πάλιν τῇ ἄλλῃ ἡμέρᾳ ὡς εἶδεν αὐτὸν περιπατοῦντα ἔφη· «οὗτός ἐστι περὶ οὗ εἶπον ὑμῖν, ὁ ὀπίσω μου ἐρχόμενος ἔμπροσθέν μου γέγονεν, ὅτι πρῶτός μου ἦν»· 2.267 «καὶ ἐμαρτύρησε, φησίν, Ἰωάννης λέγων ὅτι τεθέαμαι τὸ πνεῦμα ἐν εἴδει περιστερᾶς καταβαῖνον καὶ ἐρχόμενον ἐπ' αὐτόν». τὸ δὲ «ἐμαρτύρησε» καὶ τό «οὗτός ἐστιν ὃν εἶπον ὑμῖν», ὡς ἤδη περὶ ἄλλου καὶ ἄλλου καιροῦ παρῳχημένου λέγων, ἵνα δείξῃ οὐ τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι καιρὸν τοῦτον ἐκείνῳ τῷ τοῦ βαπτίσματος χρόνῳ, ἀλλὰ ἄλλον παρ' ἐκεῖνον. οὔτε γὰρ εὐθὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ πειρασμοῦ πρὸς τὸν Ἰωάννην ἀφικνεῖται, ἀλλὰ πρῶτον μὲν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν, ἔπειτα δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην, ὅπερ ἦν τοῦτο πρὸς τὸν Ἰωάννην *·διὸ λέγει ὅτι «οὗτος ἦν ὃν εἶπον ὑμῖν» καὶ ἔτι τὸ εὐαγγέλιόν φησι «καὶ ἐμαρτύρησεν Ἰωάννης ὅτι τεθέαμαι», ὡς ἤδη τοῦ πράγματος πρὸ καιροῦ τινος γεγονότος. 14. Μετὰ ταῦτα ἀρχὴ κλήσεως τῶν περὶ Πέτρον ἀπὸ Ἀνδρέου σημαίνεται. ἀνῆλθε γὰρ παρ' αὐτῷ Ἀνδρέας εἷς τῶν δύο τῶν ἀκολουθησάντων αὐτῷ, μαθητευομένων μὲν παρ' Ἰωάννου, ἔτι δὲ ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ παραμενόντων καὶ κατὰ καιροὺς τῷ Ἰωάννῃ σχολαζόντων. καὶ εὐθὺς μείναντος Ἀνδρέου ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν ὥρα ἦν ὡς δεκάτη, συμβέβηκεν αὐτῇ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπαντῆσαι αὐτὸν τῷ ἰδίῳ ἀδελφῷ Σίμωνι καὶ εἰπεῖν τὰ προειρημένα, ὅτι εὑρήκαμεν Μεσσίαν, καὶ ἀγαγεῖν αὐτὸν πρὸς τὸν κύριον καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, καὶ ὡς ἔχει ἡ ἀκολουθία, ὅτι εἶπεν αὐτῷ· σὺ κληθήσῃ Κηφᾶς. «καὶ τῇ ἐπαύριον ἠθέλησεν, φησίν, ἐξελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν καὶ εὑρίσκει Φίλιππον καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἀκολούθει μοι. ἦν δὲ Φίλιππος ἀπὸ Βηθσαϊδά, ἐκ τῆς πόλεως Ἀνδρέου καὶ Πέτρου». καὶ ὁρᾷς ὅτι τοῦτο διανοηθῆναι ἡμῖν δίδωσιν ὅτι τῶν δύο τῶν ἀκολουθησάντων, μαθητευομένων μὲν τῷ Ἰωάννῃ, μόνον ἑνὸς τὸ ὄνομα εἴρηκεν ὅτι Ἀνδρέας ἦν, τοῦ δὲ ἄλλου οὐκ εἴρηκεν· ὡς διανοεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς τοῦτον εἶναι οὗ τὸ ὄνομα οὐκ εἴρηκε, διὰ τὸ ὁμόχωρον διὰ τὸ σύσκηνον διὰ τὸ ὁμότεχνον διὰ τὸ ὁμοεργὲς ἢ τὸν Ἰωάννην εἶναι ἢ τὸν Ἰάκωβον, ἕνα δὲ τῶν υἱῶν Ζεβεδαίου. ἔδει γὰρ τούτους πρῶτον κληθῆναι, 2.268 ἔπειτα τὸν Φίλιππον, κατὰ τὴν ἀκολουθίαν ὡς τέτακται ἐν τοῖς εὐαγγελίοις· Πέτρος πρῶτος, ἔπειτα Ἀνδρέας, εἶτα Ἰάκωβος, εἶτα Ἰωάννης, μετὰ τούτους Φίλιππος. ἀλλὰ περὶ τούτων τὰ νῦν ἐάσθω λέγειν· πολλὴ γάρ ἐστιν τῆς πραγματείας ταύτης ἡ ἀκολουθία. 15. Εἰς δὲ τὸ ζητούμενον ἀνακαμπτέον * ὅπερ ἐστὶ κατανοῆσαι, ὅτι καθάπερ τῷ