As Jesus saw a large crowd coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”
Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep crying for me to give them meat to eat.
His disciples asked him, “Where could we get enough bread to feed such a crowd in this place where no one lives?”
So they went away in a boat to a place where they could be alone.
The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. He took them with him to a city called Bethsaida so that they could be alone.
The next day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee. He found Philip and told him, “Follow me!”
(Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.)
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the man whom Moses wrote about in his teachings and whom the prophets wrote about. He is Jesus, son of Joseph, from the city of Nazareth.”
Nathanael said to Philip, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip told him, “Come and see!”
Nathanael asked Jesus, “How do you know anything about me?” Jesus answered him, “I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
“Don’t you say, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here’? I’m telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested.