1:44

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter: Bethsaida was probably a fishing village on the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee. Here are other ways to translate this:

Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida (New International Version)
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Philip was from Bethsaida, the town where Andrew and Peter lived (Good News Translation)

Now: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as Now is not a time word. Here it introduces some parenthetical information. You should introduce this information in a way that is natural in your language.

Andrew and Peter: These are the disciples first mentioned in 1:40. Peter is the same person as Simon Peter in that verse.

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