"brother Peter were fishermen by trade, hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that he will make them ""fishers of men"" (Greek: , ""halieis anthrōpōn""). At the beginning of Jesus' public life, they were said to have occupied the same house at Capernaum. In the Gospel of Matthew () and in the Gospel of Mark () Simon Peter and Andrew were both called together to become disciples of Jesus and ""fishers of men"". These narratives record that Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, observed Simon and Andrew fishing, and"
"the next chapter () that Andrew is named as Simon's brother. However, it is generally understood that Andrew was fishing with Simon on the night in question. Matthew Poole, in his ""Annotations on the Holy Bible"", stressed that 'Luke denies not that Andrew was there'. In contrast, the Gospel of John () states that Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist, whose testimony first led him, and another unnamed disciple of John the Baptist, to follow Jesus. Andrew at once recognized Jesus as the Messiah, and hastened to introduce him to his brother. The Byzantine Church honours him with"
"(name)#Variant forms"" In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles. Other saints named Andrew include: Andrew Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. In Italian, the equivalent to ""Andrew"" is ""Andrea"", though ""Andrea"" is feminine in most other languages. ""Andrew"" is frequently shortened to ""Andy"" or ""Drew"". The word is derived from the , ""Andreas"", itself related to ""aner/andros"", ""man"" (as opposed to ""woman""), thus meaning"
"And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew also mention a James as Jesus' brother: ""Is not this the carpenter,"
"Matthew 4:21 Matthew 4:21 is the twenty-first verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Jesus has just recruited Simon Peter and Andrew as disciples. in this verse he encounters the brothers James and John. The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: For a collection of other versions see BibRef Matthew 4:21 This verse introduces two more of Jesus' disciples, James and John. They are the last disciples introduced in the Gospel"
"Andrew the Apostle Andrew the Apostle (; , ""Andreas""; from the late 1st century BC – mid to late 1st century AD), also known as Saint Andrew and referred to in the Orthodox tradition as the First-Called (, ""Prōtoklētos""), was a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name ""Andrew"" (Greek: manly, brave, from ἀνδρεία, ""Andreia"", ""manhood, valour""), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews, Christians, and other Hellenized people of Judea. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him. According to Orthodox tradition, the apostolic successor to Saint Andrew is the"
"Galilee and invited Philip to follow him. Bengel calls these ""Great Days!"" As the chapter progresses further, the gospel describes how Jesus calls his first disciples, Andrew and an unnamed disciple (verses 35–40). The unnamed disciple was possibly John, the evangelist. Andrew finds his brother Simon (verses 41–42), and Jesus changes Simon's name to Cephas (Peter) (verse 42). Cephas, original Greek: (), means ""a rock"" (Young's Literal Translation) or ""a stone"" (King James Version). This provided a powerful analogy as to the role Peter would have after the crucifixion; to lead the development of the church. Name changes occur other"
"in Nolland's view to make the calling in this verse more closely parallel the calling of James and John. This verse introduces two of Jesus' most important followers the brothers Simon and Andrew, both of these figures play an important role in the Gospels and are given prominent roles by almost all Christian churches. Schweizer notes that, unlike Mark, Matthew immediately mentions that Peter is an alternate name for Simon. Schweizer feels this is because Matthew's audience would have been well aware of the stories of the disciple and knew him by the name Peter. This has the effect of"
"Matthew 4:22 Matthew 4:22 is the twenty-second verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. After recruiting Simon Peter and Andrew as disciples Jesus encountered the brothers James and John and their father Zebedee. In this verse they also join him. The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: For a collection of other versions see BibRef Matthew 4:22 This verse is quite similar to where Simon Peter and Andrew choose to follow"
"of Jesus' ministry he first calls Peter and his brother Andrew and asks them to follow him . In the next verses it tells the story of how James the Greater and his brother John the Apostle came to follow Jesus . After some healing by Jesus he meets Levi son of Alphaeus who was a tax collector and he then asks Levi (better known as Matthew) to follow him . Peter, Andrew, James the Greater and John the Apostle are listed as Apostles . Levi, son of Alphaeus is listed as an Apostle under the name of Matthew, but"
"the name ""Protokletos"", which means ""the first called"". Thenceforth, the two brothers were disciples of Christ. On a subsequent occasion, prior to the final call to the apostolate, they were called to a closer companionship, and then they left all things to follow Jesus. Subsequently, in the gospels, Andrew is referred to as being present on some important occasions as one of the disciples more closely attached to Jesus. Andrew told Jesus about the boy with the loaves and fishes (), and when Philip wanted to tell Jesus about certain Greeks seeking Him, he told Andrew first (). Andrew was"
"disciples of John the Baptist. Jesus then called Peter, Andrew and these two sons of Zebedee to follow him. James and John are listed among the Twelve Apostles. Jesus referred to the pair as ""Boanerges"" (translated ""sons of thunder""); although their nature was calm and gentle, when their patience was pushed to its limits their anger became wild and thunderous causing them to speak out like an untamed storm. A gospel story relates how the brothers wanted to call down heavenly fire on a Samaritan town, but Jesus rebuked them. John lived for more than half a century following the"
"Andrew of Crete Saint Andrew of Crete (, c. 650 – July 4, 712 or 726 or 740), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was an 8th-century bishop, theologian, homilist, and hymnographer. He is venerated as a saint by Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians. Born in Damascus of Christian parents, Andrew was a mute from birth until the age of seven, when, according to his hagiographers, he was miraculously cured after receiving Holy Communion. He began his ecclesiastical career at fourteen in the Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, near Jerusalem, where he quickly gained the notice of his"
"Andrew the Scot St. Andrew the Scot was the brother of St. Brigid the younger, born in Ireland near the beginning of the ninth century to a noble family. Both Andrew and his sister studied under St. Donatus. Andrew even accompanied Donatus on his pilgrimage to Italy and there Andrew earned his titles (in Britain) of Andrew of Tuscany and Andrew of Fiesole. When Donatus and Andrew arrived at Fiesole the people were assembled to elect a new bishop. A heavenly voice indicated Donatus as most worthy of the honour. After being consecrated to that office, he made Andrew his"
"a bite"" and in the New Living Translation his words are ""Even if we worked for months, we wouldn't have enough money to feed them!"" In the King James Version, 200 denarii was rendered as ""200 pennyworth"". Andrew, one of Jesus' disciples, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Jesus: ""There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?"". It is curious that Andrew is ""introduced"" here to the reader, ""in apparent forgetfulness"" that an introduction has already been given in , where he was the first of John the"
"for Herod and requesting John's head. The Book of Acts portrays some disciples of John becoming followers of Jesus a development not reported by the gospels except for the early case of Andrew, Simon Peter's brother In the reign of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the division called after Abijah. His wife, whose name was Elizabeth, was also a descendant of Aaron. They were both righteous people, who lived blameless lives, guiding their steps by all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. But they had no child, Elizabeth being barren; and"
"they follow him. The Gospel of John gives a comparable account of ""The First Disciples"". In John, we are told that it was two disciples of John the Baptist (Andrew and an unnamed disciple) who heard John the Baptist announce Jesus as the ""Lamb of God"" and then followed Jesus. Andrew then went to his brother Simon, saying, ""We have found the Messiah"", and then brought Simon to Jesus. Three of the four gospels – Matthew, Mark and John – recount the story of Jesus walking on water. Matthew additionally describes Peter walking on water for a moment but beginning"
"The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It takes its theme from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew describing the moment when Christ called the two brothers Simon – later known as Peter – and Andrew, to be his disciples: As Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea – for they were fishermen. And he said to them, ""Follow me, and I will make"
"spirit descending like a dove. The Gospel of John () specifies ""Bethabara beyond Jordan"", i.e., Bethany in Perea as the location where John was baptizing when Jesus began choosing disciples, and in there is mention of further baptisms in Ænon ""because there was much water there"". The episode in forms the start of the relationship between Jesus and his future disciples. When John the Baptist called Jesus the Lamb of God, the ""two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus"". One of the disciples is named Andrew, but the other remains unnamed, and Raymond E. Brown raises the question"
"present at the Last Supper. Andrew was one of the four disciples who came to Jesus on the Mount of Olives to ask about the signs of Jesus' return at the ""end of the age"". Eusebius in his ""Church History"" 3.1 quoted Origen as saying that Andrew preached in Scythia. The Chronicle of Nestor adds that he preached along the Black Sea and the Dnieper river as far as Kiev, and from there he traveled to Novgorod. Hence, he became a patron saint of Ukraine, Romania and Russia. According to tradition, he founded the See of Byzantium (later Constantinople and"
"First disciples of Jesus The call of the first disciples of Jesus is a key episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament. It appears in , and on the Sea of Galilee. reports the first encounter with two of the disciples a little earlier in the presence of John the Baptist. Particularly in the Gospel of Mark, the beginning of the Ministry of Jesus and the call of the first disciples are inseparable. In the Gospel of John the first disciples are also disciples of John the Baptist and one of them is identified as Andrew, the"
"insistence of his mother, Fr. Alexandre de Rhodes, a French Jesuit missionary, agreed to include him among his students. Andrew soon surpassed his fellow pupils. Together with his mother, he received Baptism in 1641. He would have been about 15 years of age, having been born in 1625 or 1626. At the time of his death in 1644, he was 19 or 20. In 1642 Andrew become one of Fr. de Rhodes' closest co-workers and, after a year of further formation, he joined the ""Maison Dieu"" (""House of God"") catechist association which Fr. de Rhodes had instituted. Its members made"
"Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.<br> And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.<br> And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.<br> And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.<br> And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.<br> And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,"
"autou""). Verse 2 calls them ""the twelve apostles"": Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. ""(King James Version)"" Verse 5 refers to them simply as ""the twelve"". New King James Version Cross reference: Mark 6:8–9; Luke 9:3 This the Jews call (lymrt), ""tarmil"": and which their commentators say, is"
"loaves and fishes (John 6:8). Origen says Andrew preached in Scythia. He is also said to have preached along the Black Sea and the Dnieper river as far as Kiev, and Novgorod. According to tradition, he founded the See of Byzantium (Constantinople). He is also said to have preached in Thrace. Andrew is said to have been martyred at Patras in Achaea, where, according to traditional accounts, he was crucified upside down, on an X -shaped cross, commonly known as a ""Saint Andrew's Cross"". St Jerome wrote that the relics of St Andrew were taken from Patras to Constantinople around"
"of St. Andrew's was George Keith, a Scottish-born Presbyterian convert to Quakerism who once served as a leading minister of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania during the late 1680s and early 1690s. Keith's attacks on the political and religious authority of the colony's ruling Quakers initiated a serious schism within Pennsylvania Quakerism during that time. In 1693, after Keith was expelled from the Society of Friends, he published an antislavery tract excoriating Pennsylvania Friends for their involvement in slavery. Keith converted to Anglicanism in 1700 and returned to North America as the first missionary for the Society for the"
"the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Kentucky, US. In 1977, he was awarded a DD by Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Wisconsin, US. In 1996, he was awarded a DD by the General Theological Seminary, New York, US. John Andrew (priest) John Gerald Barton Andrew, OBE (10 January 1931 – 17 October 2014) was a British Anglican priest. From 1972 to 1996, he was the Rector of St. Thomas' Church on New York's Fifth Avenue. Andrew was born on 10 January 1931 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. As a boy, he was a chorister at St Peters Church, Anlaby. He was educated at Beverley"
"Patriarch of Constantinople. Saint Andrew was born, according to the Christian tradition, in 6 BC in Galilee. The New Testament states that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, and likewise a son of John, or Jonah. He was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee. ""The first striking characteristic of Andrew is his name: it is not Hebrew, as might have been expected, but Greek, indicative of a certain cultural openness in his family that cannot be ignored. We are in Galilee, where the Greek language and culture are quite present."" Both he and his"
"called them to discipleship. In the parallel incident in the Gospel of Luke () Andrew is not named, nor is reference made to Simon having a brother. In this narrative, Jesus initially used a boat, solely described as being Simon's, as a platform for preaching to the multitudes on the shore and then as a means to achieving a huge trawl of fish on a night which had hitherto proved fruitless. The narrative indicates that Simon was not the only fisherman in the boat (""they signaled to their partners in the other boat …"" ()) but it is not until"
"Andrea Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide, cognate to Andreas and Andrew. It is traditionally popular because, according to the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was one of the earliest disciples of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles. It derives from the Greek ἀνήρ (""anēr""), genitive ἀνδρός (""andrós""), that indicates the man as opposed to the woman (while ""man"" in the meaning of ""human being"" is ἄνθρωπος, ""ánthropos"", ἀνθρώπου, ""anthrópou""). The original male Greek name, ""Andréas"", represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the ""andr-"" prefix, like Androgeos (""man of the earth""),"
"Brotherhood of St. Andrew The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is an international lay Christian religious organization with historical roots in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The objectives of the organization focus on prayer, Bible study and service to the community with an emphasis on evangelism through fraternal outreach and ""the spread of Christ's Kingdom among men."" The Brotherhood was first organised on St. Andrew's Day, 30 November 1883, as a prayer and Bible study group at St. James Church in Chicago. Initially led by James Lawrence Houghteling, a Yale graduate, local YMCA President, and son of"
"disrespect to do so; but in Mark 3:21, also in John 7:3–4, Jesus' brothers are shown doing that. There are some events in scripture where brothers or sisters of Jesus are not shown, e.g. when Jesus was lost in the Temple and during his crucifixion. This is argued to support the view that ""brothers"" of Jesus are not blood brothers or siblings, although some reject this. The Gospel of John records the , i.e. the pair of commands ""Woman, behold your son!"" and ""Behold, thy mother!"" (), then states that ""from that hour the disciple took her unto his own"
"divine messages in Matthew 2. Matthew 4:22 Matthew 4:22 is the twenty-second verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. After recruiting Simon Peter and Andrew as disciples Jesus encountered the brothers James and John and their father Zebedee. In this verse they also join him. The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: For a collection of other versions see BibRef Matthew 4:22 This verse is quite similar to where Simon Peter"