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Jesus (on the left) is being identified by John the Baptist as the "Lamb of God who takes away of the sins of the world", in John 1:29. [1] 17th century depiction by Vannini. Tissot, James, The calling of Peter and Andrew. The calling of the disciples is a key episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament.
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, traditionally believed to be John the Apostle, to follow Jesus and spend the day with him, thus becoming the first two disciples called by Jesus. [20] Andrew at once recognized Jesus as the ...
Euthymius the Great comments on this portion saying that these words of Andrew are "the speech of one who is very glad; We have found Him whom we sought, whom we hoped should come, whom the Scriptures announced", while Bede notes, "No one finds but he who seeks: he who says that he has found shows that he had been a long while seeking."
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter,
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. The New International Version translates the passage as: And he brought him to Jesus.
Only two of John's disciples follow Christ. One of those was Andrew, as we see in verse 40. The other is not known, although St. John Chrysostom says it was the author St. John. Euthymius notes that they followed Jesus so that they might know Him more fully and perhaps become his disciples rather than John's. [1]
In a separate text known by the name of the Acts of Andrew and Matthias, which was edited by Max Bonnet in 1898 [5] and translated by M.R. James, [6] Matthias is portrayed as a captive in a country of anthropophagi (literally 'man-eaters', i.e. cannibals) and is rescued by Andrew and Jesus; it is no longer considered to be a portion of the text ...
Jesus died in Kashmir: Jesus, Moses and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Translated from the Spanish by M. G. Horwood. London: Gordon and Cremonesi. ISBN 978-0860330417. Original Spanish publication 1976. Fredriksen, Paula (July 1, 1988). From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.