John 1:35-51
“Notice what you notice.” Come and see (John 1:39,46). After first noticing this phrase in my reading I looked it up online and found two more occasions in John’s gospel where this phrase occurs. The first occurrence after John 1 is in John 4:29, the story of the woman at the well, when she told the men of the village to “Come and see”. The second is John 11:34 (Lazarus’ burial spot). Matthew also uses the phrase in Mt. 28:6 (come and see where they laid Him). Finally the phrase occurs twice in the Psalms (Ps. 46:8, 66:5) and four times in Rev. 6:1-7 (the four seals and the four living creatures).
I have paraphrased “come and see” on a number of occasions when I have invited people to church, as in “Are you part of a church body?” <No> or <I’ve been looking around.> Then me, “You should join us at church this Sunday.” One of the commentators that I looked up said, “Come and see is a deeply biblical model of evangelism, a model that flows from our trust in God, a model that relies on God’s activity.” (https://yosteve.blogspot.com/2012/03/come-and-see-in-gospel-of-john.html) Our trust, God’s activity. That’s really all it is.
COME AND SEE!!
Slava Bohu!!