Watch and Discuss:

Watch a video clip from Season 2, episode 2 (Based on John chapter 1, verses 43–51 in the Bible). As you watch, take notes and be prepared to answer the following questions:

1. Describe the landscape shown at the start of the clip? Where was Nathanael sitting?
2. What was burning beside him? Describe his mood.
3. Where were Nathanael and Philip talking? What time of day was it?
4. What words did Philip repeat three times?
5. Where did Jesus meet and talk to Philip and Nathanael?

Listening Practice:

Watch the video clip again and fill in the missing words from the box on the right:

Nathanael: (Speaking to God) This was done for You. Do not Your face from me! Do You see me?

A few days later…

Philip: Nathanael, He’s the one.

Nathanael: The one?

Philip: The one who Moses and the prophets said would come.

Nathanael: The one?

Philip: The one. Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph.

Nathanael: Nazareth? Ha ha ha… Can anything good come out of Nazareth?

Philip: Come and see.

Nathanael: Oh, a little on a craggy Hilltop….

Philip: I’m .

Nathanael: No roads, no public buildings, they barely have a synagogue.

Philip: You can't. You really can't.

Nathanael: Hey, I'm just telling it like it is. Why can't I do that?

Philip: Because you're .

Nathanael: The families, day labourers, and peasants, by the way, sleep under the same roof as their !

Philip: Listen to me.

Nathanael: Honestly, Philip, saying “that one” is a Nazarene is practically .

Philip: Just, come and see.

Nathanael: I …

Philip: What, you gonna be late for work?

Nathanael: Wow, that's dark, so .

Philip: Your whole life you've wanted to serve God, to meet the Son of God, the king of Israel. I promise, you will not it, and if you do, I'll refund your . But I know you, you don't mess around. You will want to join him. He's like no Rabbi who ever has been or will be.

Nathanael: I've never seen you talk like this. I'm still on the Nazareth of it all.

Philip: Come and see…… Rabbi!

Jesus: Well, this is a good night. Do you know who stands beside you there?

Philip: This is my friend Nathanael.

Jesus: Yes, the truth teller.

Nathanael: I'm sorry.

Jesus: Man is often and Israel began with Jacob, a bit of a deceiver, yes?

Nathanael: Yes.

Jesus: But one of the great things about you is you are a Israelite in whom there is no deceit.

Nathanael: (looking at Philip) What did you say about me? What is this? How do you know me?

Jesus: I have known you long before Philip called you to come and see. Don't look at him. Look at me. When you were in your moment, and you were alone. I did not turn my face from you, I saw you under the tree.

Nathanael: Rabbi!

Jesus: There it is.

Nathanael: You are the Son of God, the King of Israel.

Philip: I knew it.

Jesus: Well, that didn't take long.

Philip: He doesn't around.

Jesus: Because I said to you, “I saw you under the fig tree”, you believe? You are going to see many greater things than that. Like Jacob, you are going to see opened and the angels of God and descending upon the Son of Man. That's me, by the way.

Nathanael: Yeah, I got that.

Jesus: Good, I know you like to be .

Vocabulary Exercises:

Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right.

Completion Exercise:

Complete these sentences with words from the exercise above: (Hint: you may need to change the form of some words)

1. He once was , but later he became a good reader.
2. During the winter the farmer keeps his in the barn.
3. The Bible the arrival of a time of lasting goodness and peace.
4. Huge green trucks come every week to empty our garbage bins and take it to the .
5. Scammers use promises to cheat people.
6. Her belief that taxes should be higher was .
7. She is about working for a big company and won’t take a job in a small firm.
8. The starving people in war-torn Sudan are living in total .

Discussion Questions:

1. Why do you think Nathanael was so upset that day when he was sitting under the tree?
2. What do you think it was that he set on fire? Why do you think he did that?
3. Describe “the one” that Philip and Nathanael talked about.
4. Why did Nathanael not believe Philip when Philip said that Jesus was the “one”?
5. Why did Nathanael change his mind about who he thought Jesus was?
6. What did Jesus say about the person from whom the nation of Israel came?
7. What promise did Jesus give to Nathanael?