John 1:48: “Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
Micah 4:4: “Each of them will sit under his vine and under his fig tree, With no one to make them afraid, For the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.”
1 Kings 4:25: “So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.”
Zechariah 3:10: “‘In that day,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’”
The fig tree symbolized peace and security in God’s kingdom when Israel received blessings of the covenant in the OT.
When Jesus says he saw Nathanael under the fig tree, he identified him as an OT believer who knew Jesus as the only key to eternal life.
Do you recognize Jesus as the only way to eternal life?