Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Interviewer: So - it's great that you're willing to sacrifice a day's pay to strike & make your voice heard in government.

Striker: Oh no, I don't loose any pay, it's my civil right to strike, the government continue to pay me.

Interviewer: oh - but, of course you have to pay the train fair of course, that's some sacrifice

Striker: Oh no, the Union pay the train fair.

Interviewer: but of course, you pay that through higher union dues effectively ?

Striker: Oh no, the government pay my Union membership dues. ...

• Passage bristling with interesting problems; Finding Philip, he said to him, "Follow me." - should you follow strangers ? and calls Nathanael similarly a verse later. This plays into our wish that we can be turned around instantly and walk the walk from day 1. eg. Acts 14 - we must go through many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.
• Not the making of instant Christians, but those who are willing to do his will. Follow me. all that's recorded, but we should not assume that it's an exhaustive summary of all that was said; clearly - but that was the most important part.
• Jesus did not say listen to me, or agree with me, or even believe me., but Follow me.. 3 times in the text Come and see - not just an intellectual assent, but the experience of meeting Jesus; the incomparable person of Christ himself.
• Nathanael guile-less, doesn't hide his doubt - shows a key problem: Jesus apparently from the wrong place: Nazareth, but shows up & checks him out. Being under the fig-tree: metaphore for in prayer with God.
• At the end - aluding to Jacob's ladder, a stepped pyramid - eg. mesopotamia in Babylon - 1st step 100ft, next 50ft etc. Jacob had a dream - angels ascending & descending - comes down & blesses him. The Son of Man is that ladder - through whom, God can bless.