John 1:46

Green's Literal Translation

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing be out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Nazareth?" Nate said doubtfully. "Has there ever been anything good that came from Nazareth?"Phil waved him on and said, "Come, and you will see for yourself!"

Legacy Standard Bible
And Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip *said to him, "Come and see."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Bible in Basic English
Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

Darby Translation
And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

New King James Version
And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Christian Standard Bible®
"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Nathanael asked him. "Come and see," Philip answered.

World English Bible
Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Nathanael saith to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith to him, Come and see.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael. "Come and see," said Philip.

King James Version (1611)
And Nathaneel said vnto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith vnto him, Come and see.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Nathanaell sayde vnto him: What good can come out of Nazareth? Philippe sayde vnto him: Come, and se.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but Nathanael said to him, can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? come and see, said Philip.

Amplified Bible
Nathanael answered him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip replied, "Come and see."

American Standard Version
And Nathanael said unto him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

Revised Standard Version
Nathan'a-el said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Nathanael sayde vnto him: can ther eny good thinge come out of Nazareth? Philip sayde to him: come and se.

Update Bible Version
And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Nathanael said to him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith to him, Come and see.

New Century Version
But Nathanael said to Philip, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip answered, "Come and see."

New English Translation
Nathanael replied, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip replied, "Come and see."

Contemporary English Version
Nathanael asked, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip answered, "Come and see."

Complete Jewish Bible
Natan'el answered him, "Natzeret? Can anything good come from there?" "Come and see," Philip said to him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Nathanael sayde vnto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saide to him, Come, and see.

George Lamsa Translation
Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and you will see.

Hebrew Names Version
Natan'el said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Natzeret?" Pilipos said to him, "Come and see."

International Standard Version
Nathaniel said to him, "Out of Nazareth? What good can that be?" Philip told him, "Come and see!"John 7:41-42,52;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Saith to him Nathanael, From Natsrath can any good thing be? Philipos saith to him, Come and see.

Murdock Translation
Nathaniel said to him: Can there be any good thing from Nazareth? Philip said to him: Come, and see.

New Living Translation
"Nazareth!" exclaimed Nathanael. "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" "Come and see for yourself," Philip replied.

New Life Bible
Nathanael said, "Can anything good come out of the town of Nazareth?" Philip said, "Come and see."

English Revised Version
And Nathanael said unto him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

Berean Standard Bible
"Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip.

New Revised Standard
Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Nathanael said unto him - Out of Nazareth, can any good thing come? Philip saith unto him - Come, and see!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.

King James Version
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

Lexham English Bible
And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see!"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Nathanael sayde vnto hym: Can there any good thyng come out of Nazareth? Philip sayth vnto him: come and see.

Easy-to-Read Version
But Nathanael said to Philip, "Nazareth! Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip answered, "Come and see."

English Standard Version
Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

New American Standard Bible
Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good be from Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Good News Translation
"Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," answered Philip.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Nathanael seide to hym, Of Nazareth may sum good thing be?

Young's Literal Translation
and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'

Contextual Overview

⁴³ And on the morrow, Jesus desired to go out into Galilee. And He found Philip, and says to him, Follow Me! ⁴⁴ And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael and said to him, We have found the One of whom Moses wrote in the Law and the Prophets, Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth. ⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing be out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see. ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said concerning him, Behold, truly an Israelite in whom is no guile! ⁴⁸ Nathanael said to Him, From where do You know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called, you being under the fig tree, I saw you. ⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and said to Him, Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel. ⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, Because I said to you I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these. ⁵¹ And He says to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, From now on you will see Heaven opened, and "the angels of God ascending and descending" on the Son of Man. Gen. 28:12

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Can: John 7:41, John 7:42, John 7:52, Luke 4:28, Luke 4:29

Come: John 4:29, Luke 12:57, 1 Thessalonians 5:21

Reciprocal: Matthew 2:23 - He shall Matthew 13:55 - the carpenter's Matthew 21:11 - of Nazareth Matthew 26:69 - Jesus Mark 10:47 - Jesus Luke 1:26 - a city Luke 2:4 - of the city Luke 7:22 - Go John 1:39 - Come John 2:24 - because John 7:17 - General John 7:28 - Ye both John 18:5 - Jesus John 19:19 - Jesus

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Nathanael said unto him,.... Taking notice of, and laying hold on what Philip said, that he was of Nazareth, which at once stumbled, and prejudiced him against Jesus being the Messiah; knowing very well that Bethlehem was to be the place of his birth:

can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? The whole country of Galilee was had in contempt with the Jews; but Nazareth was so mean a place, that it seems it was even despised by its neighbours, by the Galilaeans themselves; for Nathanael was a Galilean, that said these words. It was so miserable a place that he could hardly think that any sort of good thing, even any worldly good thing, could come from thence; and it was so wicked, as appears from their murderous designs upon our Lord, that he thought no good man could arise from hence; and still less, any prophet, any person of great note; and still least of all, that that good thing, or person, the Messiah, should spring from it: so that his objection, and prejudice, proceeded not only upon the oracle in Micah 5:2, which points out Bethlehem as the birthplace of the Messiah; but upon the wickedness, and meanness, and obscurity of Nazareth.

Philip saith unto him, come and see; who though he might not be master of this point, and knew not how to solve this difficulty, and remove this prejudice from Nathanael's mind, yet persuades him to go with him to Jesus; who, he doubted not, would give him full satisfaction in this, and all other points; and then it would most clearly appear to him, as it had done to him, that he was the true Messiah. The phrase, תא חזי, "come, see", is often used in the book of Zohar q: so it is, and likewise, בא וראה, "come and see", in the Talmudic writings r.

q In Gen. fol. 13. 1. & 14. 3. & 16. 1, 2. & in Exod. fol. 83. 4. & passim. r T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 8. 1. & 23. 2. & 24. 1. Kiddushin, fol. 20. 1. & 33. 1. & Sota, fol. 5. 1, 2. & passim.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Can any good thing ... - The character of Nazareth was proverbially bad. To be a Galilean or a Nazarene was an expression of decided contempt, John 7:52. See the notes at Matthew 2:23. Nathanael asked, therefore, whether it was possible that the Messiah should come from a place proverbially wicked. This was a mode of judging in the case not uncommon. It is not by examining evidence, but by prejudice. Many persons suffer their minds to be filled with prejudice against religion, and then pronounce at once without examination. They refuse to examine the subject, for they have set it down that it cannot be true. It matters not where a teacher comes from, or what is the place of his birth, provided he be authorized of God and qualified for his work.

Come and see - This was the best way to answer Nathanael. He did not sit down to reason with him, or speculate about the possibility that a good thing could come from Nazareth; but he asked him to go and examine for himself, to see the Lord Jesus, to hear him converse, to lay aside his prejudice, and to judge from a fair and candid personal inquiry. So we should beseech sinners to lay aside their prejudices against religion, and “to be Christians,” and thus make trial for themselves. If men can be persuaded to come to Jesus, all their petty and foolish objections against religion will vanish. They will be satisfied from their own experience that it is true, and in this way only will they ever be satisfied.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 46. Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? — Bp. Pearce supposes that the τι αγαθον of the evangelist has some particular force in it: for, in Jeremiah 33:14, God says, I will perform that good thing which I promised, c. and this, in Jeremiah 33:15 is explained to mean, his causing the branch of righteousness (i.e. the Messiah) to grow up unto David, from whom Jesus was descended: in this view, Nathanael's question seems to imply, that not Nazareth, but Bethlehem, was to be the birth-place of the Messiah, according to what the chief priests and scribes had determined, Matthew 2:4-6. If this conjecture be not thought solid, we may suppose that Nazareth, at this time, was become so abandoned that no good could be expected from any of those who dwelt in it, and that its wickedness had passed into a proverb: Can any thing good be found in Nazareth? Or, that the question is illiberal, and full of national prejudice.

Come and see. — He who candidly examines the evidences of the religion of Christ will infallibly become a believer. No history ever published among men has so many external and internal proofs of authenticity as this has. A man should judge of nothing by first appearances, or human prejudices. Who are they who cry out, The Bible is a fable? Those who have never read it, or read it only with the fixed purpose to gainsay it. I once met with a person who professed to disbelieve every tittle of the New Testament, a chapter of which, he acknowledged, he had never read. I asked him, had he ever read the Old? He answered, No! And yet this man had the assurance to reject the whole as an imposture! God has mercy on those whose ignorance leads them to form prejudices against the truth; but he confounds those who take them up through envy and malice, and endeavour to communicate them to others.