[A Message for Good Friday. Bulletin outline found below.]

Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see.

Early in his Galilean ministry, Jesus invited Philip to follow him. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth." Nathanael responded somewhat sarcastically, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip's simple answer was the challenge that is still given to skeptics; "Come and see."

That was the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Today we remember the end of that ministry. I wonder if Nathanael remembered his question on the dark afternoon of Good Friday. I wonder if he still asked himself, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?"

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