Andrew

Andrew was Simon Peter's brother, a fisherman from Bethsaida. Before following Jesus he was a disciple of John the Baptist, and it was John who pointed to Jesus first — "Behold, the Lamb of God" — sending Andrew and another disciple to ask where Jesus was staying. Andrew spent the day with Jesus, then went immediately to find his brother Simon: "We have found the Messiah." He brought Peter to Jesus. This pattern of bringing others defines Andrew in the Gospel of John.

He appears again when Jesus tested Philip about feeding five thousand people — it was Andrew who found a boy with five barley loaves and two fish and brought him forward, adding the practical caveat "but what are they for so many?" And when a group of Greeks came to see Jesus and approached Philip, Philip consulted Andrew, and the two of them together told Jesus. The Orthodox tradition honors him as "Protokletos" (the first-called) and tradition links his later ministry to Greece, Asia Minor, and the Black Sea region, where he is said to have been crucified on an X-shaped cross, now called a "St. Andrew's cross."