Andrew

Brother of Simon Peter, son of John, from Bethsaida (John 1:40-44). He is a fisherman (Mark 1:16). In John he is a disciple of the Baptist first, and he brings Peter to Jesus. He is the one who says, about the loaves, that a boy has five barley loaves and two fish (John 6:8-9). He and Philip bring the Greeks who want to see Jesus (John 12:20-22). He is with Peter, James, and John on the Mount of Olives when they ask about the temple (Mark 13:3).

That is the texture the Gospels give him. Acts lists him once, in the upper room (Acts 1:13), and does not travel with him again.

No book of the New Testament carries his name. The church did not receive a Gospel of Andrew.

The New Testament does not tell his death. Later memory says he was crucified in Achaia, often at Patras. The X-shaped cross is a medieval picture, not an early report, and not a verse. This lesson will not draw a mission through Scythia. Scripture does not.