John Gill's Exposition on John 1:44

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now Philip was of Bethsaida, etc.] A town on the lake of Gennesaret, afterwards made a city by Philip the tetrarch, and called Julias, after the name of Caesar’s daughter f59: it was a fishing town, and had its name from thence; and the disciples that were of it, were of this business: the city of Andrew and Peter; or “Simon”, as read the Syriac and Persic versions: three apostles were called out of this place, as mean, and wicked, as it was; (see <401121>Matthew 11:21); which was no small honour to it: it is a saying of the Jews f60, that “a man’s place (his native place) does not honour him, but a man honours his place.” This was the case here.

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