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Bur after that greeting Jesus changed the subject. He proposed that they set out together and He would explain His message to them during the journey; since they were all natives of Galilee province, they would all walk home. To this the three were glad to agree. But the long trek up the stony northern roads had hardly begun when their number began to grow. The first recruit was a friend of Andrew, a wayfarer like himself with a Greek name, Philip, whom they overtook on the highway.
This shy, thoughtful Philip, although he had been born in Capernaum, had lived for most of his life in a watering place called Bethsaida. Now he was determined to get out of the town-once a simple port of fishermen, it had lately become a resort for carousing Romans, and no decent native could tolerate the open drunkenness and roistering lust and lawlessness of the soldiers.