“Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.”
'How do you know me?' Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, 'I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you' — Jesus' knowledge of Nathanael's prior location, unknown to Philip, provides empirical confirmation of supernatural awareness. The fig tree may carry symbolic significance (returning to Eden's knowledge, or Torah meditation, as fig trees were common contemplative locations), though the precise allusion remains interpretively open.
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