Andrew the Disciple

His name means Manliness¹ and is a Greek name. He was a brother of Peter, and one of the twelve apostles.² Originally a disciple of John³, Andrew was told by John that Jesus was the “lamb of God” which prompted him to meet Jesus and bring his brother Peter to meet the Messiah.⁴ It seems that that this makes Andrew the first disciple to meet Jesus but he did not say with him at that time since it is later recorded that Jesus came and called him to be his disciple⁵.

Andrew lived in Bethsaida⁶ where he was a fisherman in the sea of Galilee in partnership with Peter⁷ and also James and John.⁸ (Who also became disciples of Jesus.)

The two main incidents that Andrew feature in include:

• The feeding of the 5000 where Andrew introduced the boy with the five loaves and two fishes⁹
• The introduction of some Greeks to Jesus along with Phillip¹⁰

1. https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Andrew.html ↩︎
2. Mat 4:18 ↩︎
3. John 1:35 ↩︎
4. John 1:41 ↩︎
5. Mk 1:16 ↩︎
6. John 1:44 ↩︎
7. Mk 1:16 ↩︎
8. Luke 5:10 ↩︎
9. John 6:8 ↩︎
10. John 12:22 ↩︎