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Jn 1:48b ... Jesus answered and said to him, ... "Before Philip called the you, being under the Fig Tree I-saw you."

The second sentence has three phrases containing 5 narrator and 11 dialog words. After Nathanael asked Jesus how he knew him, Jesus will tell him not one but two ways he knew him, ... Apekrithē Iēsous kai eipen autō, ... pro tou se Filippon fōnēsai, onta hupo tēn sukēn eidon se (Answered Jesus and said to him, ... "Before the you Philip called, being under the Fig Tree I saw you").

Diagram 1: The 16 words are top down. The words "Apekrithē Iēsous" (Answered Jesus) are tangent to the face of Jesus. The words "Filippon fōnēsai" (Philip called) could be tangent to the inside of the fig tree canopy and are horizontally in line with Philip tangent to the inside of the fig tree canopy. Amazingly, the words "tēn sukēn" (the Fig Tree) are also tangent to the fig tree canopy. The last two words "eidon se" (I saw you) are tangent to the head of Nathanael and "the stone" on which his head lies, just like when Jacob placed a stone under his head and dreamed of a stairway going from earth to heaven when he slept at the shrine of Haran. (Gen 28:10-13).

Diagram 2: shows Philip when he found Nathanael in verse 1:45a before calling down to him ... "We have found Jesus the Son of Joseph, the one from Nazareth." Nathanael realizes Jesus can see him from a distance when he is all alone and can even read his mind when he is sleeping! He knows this is a supernatural power that can only come from God.

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