Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Philip saith unto him, come and see; who though he might not be master of this point, and knew not how to solve this difficulty, and remove this prejudice from Nathanael's mind, yet persuades him to go with him to Jesus; who, he doubted not, would give him full satisfaction in this, and all other points; and then it would most clearly appear to him, as it had done to him, that he was the true Messiah. The phrase, תא חזי, "come, see", is often used in the book of Zohar q: so it is, and likewise, בא וראה, "come and see", in the Talmudic writings r.