Come and See

In yesterday's Gospel from John (Gospel - Jn 1:35-42), two of John the Baptist's followers begin to follow Jesus after John calls Jesus the Lamb of God. When they begin to follow him, Jesus turns to them and asks, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi, where are you staying?" Jesus then says to them, "Come and see."

I found the interaction between Jesus and the two followers humorous. Jesus notices he's being followed... his first followers... and asks them what they want. They, apparently, don't know. Their response sounds like they're just making something up... "ahhhh... where are you staying?" That's an odd answer to the question, "What do you seek?"

I thought that you could remove the Apostles' response to the question and, if you simply leave them not answering at all, then Jesus follow up sentence works just as well.

Jesus: What do you seek?

The Apostles do not know.

Jesus: Come and see.

It occurred to me that Jesus' answer may not have been in response to the question of where he was staying, but instead the answer to the question in their hearts as to why they were called to follow him... the answer of which his actions and example will eventually show them.

I'm not theologian, but it seemed plausible. And it made me realize that when we are also called to follow him that the answers to our call will not be in words, but will be held within his living example.