Following the Lessons of St. Andrew’s Life

Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist — who was preparing the way for the Messiah—and as soon as John, the Precursor, pointed to Jesus and said, “Behold the Lamb of God, he who takes away the sins of the world!” Andrew immediately sought to follow Jesus along with another disciple of the Baptist who was almost certainly the man who would become St. John the Evangelist. The one who would write down the details of the encounter for us in the first chapter of his gospel.