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Nathanael

[ nuh-than-ee-uhl, -than-yuhl ]

noun

  1. a disciple of Jesus, possibly Bartholomew. John 1:45–51.


Nathanael

/ nəˈθænjəl /

noun

  1. New Testament a Galilean who is perhaps to be identified with the apostle Bartholomew (John 1:45–51; 21:1)


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Not many can see Nathanael standing under the fig-tree, and remind him of it at the needful moment.

He was a perfect Nathanael, and lived more in the next world than in this, as you will soon see.

He persuaded Nathanael to come and see the Master, and thereby won a new adherent.

You had only to look at the man to feel sure that you could trust him, and that, like Nathanael, there was no guile in him.

Nathanael left his seat under the fig tree, where Philip had found him, and went to see for himself.

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