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From My Heart To You
ANDREW
Like his brother, Simon Peter, Andrew was a fisherman from
Bethsaida. A disciple of John the Baptist, Andrew witnessed
Jesus' baptism and impressed by John's words. "Behold the
Lamb of God!", he decided to meet Our Lord without delay.
This meeting quickly convinced him that Jesus was indeed the
Messiah, and he resolved to follow Him. Thus Andrew became
the first disciple of Jesus.
Shortly afterwards, Andrew brought Simon to Jesus who received
him also as His disciple and named him Peter. Later, Jesus
called the brothers permanently to His ministry telling them
that He would make them fishers of men. Andrew seems to have
been the quietly helpful type of man. At the feeding of the
five thousand it is he who tells his Master of the boy with five
barley loaves and two fishes. Again, when Philip has the problem
of handling a group of Gentiles who want to meet Jesus merely
because He has become popular, it is to Andrew that Philip takes
his problem.
Of Andrew's later history little is known with certainty. Eusebius,
the historian, records that he preached in Scythia, an area which
is now Russian territory between the Black and Caspian Seas. An
apocryphal source maintains that he was crucified in Patnas, Greece,
and that he was bound, not nailed, to a cross from which he preached
for two days to the people before he died.
Andrew's name fitted him well. It is a Greek name meaning "manly,"
and Andrew exhibited that quiet strength of character that is the
mark of true manliness.
John 6:8-13
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith
unto him,
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two
small fishes: but what are they among so many?
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much
grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about
five thousand.
And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks,
he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them
that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as
they would.
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather
up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve
baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which
remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
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