Sunday Devotions: Epiphanies in Epiphany

John 1, Psalm 139, 1 Samuel 3

In today’s gospel text, two of Jesus’ disciples meet him for the first time. “How did you come to know me?”, asks Nathanael, surprised to be called by name — let alone called “an Israelite in whom there is no deceit” (John 1:47) — by a complete stranger. Jesus says that he had known Nathanael even before they met, and promises that his newest follower “…