Son Of Joseph

John 1:43-45 – The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

John 12:21 – They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.”

Matthew 4:19 – “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”

Luke 24:44 – He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

Luke 1:32-33,35 – He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”… The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

Application:

• ·         Philip was a Greek name, which may be why the Greeks came to him
• ·         Evangelism was at the heart of Jesus’ call to His disciples.
• ·         Joseph was Jesus’ legal, though not his natural, father.
• ·         “Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms” were the three parts of the Hebrew Old Testament, indicating that the suffering, death and resurrection of the Messiah were foreseen and foreshadowed in the Old Testament Scriptures.
• ·         This title, “the Son of the Most High”, has two senses: (1) the divine Son of God and (2) the Messiah born in time.
• ·         Although Christ’s role as mediator will one day be finished, the kingdom of the Father and Son, as one, will never end.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV