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Andrew the Apostle was born to a Jewish family in Bethsaida, in Galilee, [9] possibly between 5 and 10 AD [10] The New Testament states that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, [11] and likewise a son of Jonah. "The first striking characteristic of Andrew is his name: it is not Hebrew, as might have been expected, but Greek, indicative of a ...
To distinguish him from Simon Peter, he is given a surname in all three of the Synoptic Gospels where he is mentioned. Simon is called "Zelotes" in Luke and Acts (Luke 6:15 Acts 1:13). For this reason, it is generally assumed that Simon was a former member of the political party, the Zealots.
The Catholic Church defined that "brothers of Jesus" are not biological children of Mary, [2] because of the dogma of the perpetual virginity of Mary, [3] [4] by virtue of which it rejects the idea that Simon and any other than Jesus Christ God could be a biological son of Mary, suggesting that the so-called Desposyni were either sons of Joseph ...
Simon Peter is portrayed by Adam Levy in the 2015 NBC drama A.D. The Bible Continues. Simon Peter is portrayed by Alexis Rodney in the 2015 National Geographic film Killing Jesus. Simon Peter is portrayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the 2018 IFC film Mary Magdalene. Simon Peter is portrayed by Petrônio Gontijo in the 2018 RecordTV telenovela Jesus.
These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him. [4] According to Luke:
When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!" When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus… Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah". [5]
In this verse we find Simon Peter placed first, even though he was called after his brother Andrew (see primacy of Peter). Some Roman Catholics will cite this verse to argue for the primacy of the Roman see which Peter founded. [1] It is said that Christ chose twelve apostles to correspond to the twelve Patriarchs, the sons of Jacob.
So he appointed the twelve:[b] Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who ...