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Selected Verse: John 1:40 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Joh 1:40 |
King James |
One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
One . . . was Andrew--The other was doubtless our Evangelist himself. His great sensitiveness is touchingly shown in his representation of this first contact with the Lord; the circumstances are present to him in the minutest details; he still remembers the Very hour. But "he reports no particulars of those discourses of the Lord by which he was bound to Him for the whole of His life; he allows everything personal to retire" [OLSHAUSEN].
Peter's brother--and the elder of the two. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
One of the two
The other being John.
Andrew
See on Mar 3:18. Compare Mar 13:3; Joh 6:8; Joh 12:22.
Simon Peter's brother
The mention of Simon Peter before he has appeared in the narrative indicates the importance which the Evangelist attaches to him. It seems to assume a knowledge of the evangelic narrative on the part of the readers. See a similar instance of anticipating what is subsequently explained, in the mention of Mary, Joh 11:2. |
2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,