• Lesson five: the apostles in scripture

  • Lesson six: looking at each apostle

    • Researching history and tradition

      • Neither is inspired

      • History and its sources

        • Primary sources

        • Secondary sources

        • Questions of accuracy

      • Tradition and its sources

        • Stories and accounts handed down

        • Story changes over the years

        • Contrast with Scripture

      • What’s not included

        • Peter and Paul

          • They’ll be in separate lessons

        • Study of Peter

          • Much tradition to be analyzed

          • Blends in to lesson on apostolic succession

    • Andrew in scripture

      • Brother to Peter – Matthew 4:18

      • Present when John declared Jesus “Lamb of God” – John 1:35-44

        • First known to “follow” Jesus

        • Was a “multiplier” (Andrew + Simon = double)

        • Knew Jesus immediately as the Messiah

        • From Bethsaida, then Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee

        • Fisherman – Matthew 4:18

        • Found the boy with the fish – John 6:5-9

        • Directed some Greeks to Jesus – John 12:20-23

      • Named among the twelve

        • In initial naming

        • In Jerusalem awaiting the Holy Spirit – Acts 1:13

        • Included whenever apostles grouped

    • Andrew: history and traditions

      • Given Hellenistic name

      • Left Jerusalem at an unknown time

      • Traveled to Scythia and preached

      • Continued across Asia Minor to Ephesus

      • Began preaching in Greece

      • Converted governor’s wife in Patras, Greece

        • Enraged governor

        • “Debate” followed by crucifixion in AD 69