The first century was a time of expectation.  There were many people who were "looking" for the Messiah.

John 1:40

40 One of the two, which heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
41 He, first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, We have found the Messiah.
42 And he brought him to Yeshua. And when Yeshua saw him, he said, You are Simon, the son of Jona: you shall be called Cephas, which means: a stone.
43 The following day, Yeshua went to Galilee, and found Philip, and said to him, Follow me.
44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets wrote. Yeshua of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
46 And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.
47 Yeshua saw Nathanael coming to him, and said, Look an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
48 Nathanael said to him, How do you know me? Yeshua answered and said to him, Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.
49 Nathanael answered, and said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel.

Were John and Nathanael proclaiming that Yeshua was God?

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