Can Anything Good Come From Nazareth?

Nathanael asked, 'Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?' Philip said, 'Come and see.' Nathanael's prejudice is geographic and social. Nazareth wasn't a place of importance. Philip doesn't argue. He invites encounter.

I notice Philip's response pattern throughout John: 'Come and see.' It's an invitation to experience, not to accept doctrine. Nathanael comes, meets Jesus, and is transformed. Sometimes you can't argue someone out of prejudice. You have to invite them to see for themselves. That's a different mode of persuasion entirely—not rhetorical but relational, experiential.