Matthew 27:33 – 53.

The macabre sight of a gory Jesus hanging on the cross two thousand years ago for no sin of His, is still the most powerful demonstration of selfless love on planet earth. His death brought into the Greek dictionary, one more new word for love – ‘Agape’ which expressed the fathomless and sacrificial love of God for mankind.

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”.