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Joh 1:40 Strong Concordance One [1520] of [1537] the two [1417] which [3588] heard [191] [3844] John [2491] speak, and [2532] followed [190] him [846], was [2258] Andrew [406], Simon [4613] Peter's [4074] brother [80].
  King James One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

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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.
 
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2 [1161] (It was [2258] that Mary [3137] which [3588] anointed [218] the Lord [2962] with ointment [3464], and [2532] wiped [1591] his [846] feet [4228] with her [846] hair [2359], whose [3739] brother [80] Lazarus [2976] was sick [770]
22 Philip [5376] cometh [2064] and [2532] telleth [3004] Andrew [406]: and [2532] again [3825] Andrew [406] and [2532] Philip [5376] tell [3004] Jesus [2424].
8 One [1520] of [1537] his [846] disciples [3101], Andrew [406], Simon [4613] Peter's [4074] brother [80], saith [3004] unto him [846],
3 And [2532] as he [846] sat [2521] upon [1519] the mount [3735] of Olives [1636] over against [2713] the temple [2411], Peter [4074] and [2532] James [2385] and [2532] John [2491] and [2532] Andrew [406] asked [1905] him [846] privately [2596] [2398],
18 And [2532] Andrew [406], and [2532] Philip [5376], and [2532] Bartholomew [918], and [2532] Matthew [3156], and [2532] Thomas [2381], and [2532] James [2385] the son [3588] of Alphaeus [256], and [2532] Thaddaeus [2280], and [2532] Simon [4613] the Canaanite [2581],