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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 1:48 - 1:48
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Whence knowest thou me - conscious that his very heart had been read, and at this critical moment more than ever before.
Before Philip called thee - showing He knew all that passed between Philip and him at a distance.
when ... under the fig tree, etc. - where retirement for meditation and prayer was not uncommon [Lightfoot]. Thither, probably - hearing that his master’s Master had at length appeared, and heaving with mingled eagerness to behold Him and dread of deception - he had retired to pour out his guileless heart for light and guidance, ending with such a prayer as this, “Show me a token for good!” (See on Luk 2:8). Now he has it, “Thou guileless one, that fig tree scene, with all its heaving anxieties, deep pleadings and tremulous hopes - I saw it all.” The first words of Jesus had astonished, but this quite overpowered and won him.