Father, another gift of a day! Warmth and sunshine in abundance, it is most certainly welcome! Thank You for Your wondrous gift!

John 1:35-39 (<<click here to read the passage)

Until I read through this portion of Scripture from John 1, I had forgotten all about a man by the name of Bob Bennett. I don’t remember the first time I heard his music, but I would guess it would have been when I was in college.

At the beginning of verse 39, Jesus is being followed by two of John the Baptist’s disciples (one we find out to be Andrew and the other is probably John, the author of this Gospel – who by the way does not name himself but refers to himself at the end of his Gospel as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” John 20:2). Anyway, as Jesus passed by John the Baptist point Jesus out to the two saying, “Look! There is the Lamb of God!” – remember he was a pointer!

When John’s two disciples heard this, they followed Jesus.
Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them.
They replied, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
“Come and see,” he said… vs37-39 NLT

Come and see.

That phrase is what tripped a memory in my mind. I remember it being a song or at least a part of a song. It took me a bit but, in my searching, I eventually saw Bob Bennett’s name and knew right away that that was the song I had recalled from so long ago.

It was from an album he released in 1982. I may have been a freshman or possibly a sophomore in college when I first heard the song Come and See. (That fall, by the way, was when I first met Miss Karen Yough, the love of my life!)

The song was actually the result of an assignment he and a classmate received. They were to write a song based on anything in the book of John. And as many students are in the habit of doing, they waited until the night before the assignment was due and this is the song they came up with.

Here are the lyrics and a YouTube posting of him singing it…enjoy!

Come and see, come and see
Come and see a Man from Heaven
Come and see, hear Him speak
He has seen the face of God

Come and see, come and see
This Jesus of Nazareth
Come and see the One that we
Have heard of all our lives

A voice crying in the wilderness
A voice from the sky loud and clear
A still, small voice deep inside
And a voice still ringing in my ear … saying

Follow Me, Follow Me
And I will show you My Father
Follow Me and you will see
The Heavens opened wide

Come and see, come and see
Come and see this Man from Heaven
Oh, could it be? Could it be
We will see the face of God?

Mar 9th, 2021, Tue, 8:16 pm