John 1:45 – 51

Philip found Nathaniel and said to him, we have found Jesus, of whom Moses and the prophets wrote in the law. Nathaniel reacted impulsively - ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ Philip said to him – ‘come and see’.

It was understood by all the people in Palestine during Jesus’ time, that when a Jew stood under a fig tree, it meant that he was ‘meditating the scriptures’. When Nathaniel met Jesus, Jesus looked at him and said, “Behold, an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile”.

Moses, realizing that he was not backed by his own people after killing an Egyptian, fled from Egypt to Midian, to save his own life. He became complacent with a good father-in-law, wife, two sons and sheep, to settle as a shepherd in the wilderness. He entered Midian as an Egyptian and saved the daughters of Jethro from the local shepherds and now God was sending him on a mission to save his people (shepherds) from the Egyptians, knowing that shepherds were an abomination to the Egyptians (Genesis 46:36b).