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The name "Andrew" (meaning manly, brave, from Ancient Greek: ἀνδρεία, romanized: andreía, lit. 'manhood, valor'), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews and other Hellenized people since the second or third century B.C. [8] No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him.
The eleventh most common baby name in 2006, [45] Andrew was among the ten most popular names for male infants in 2005. [46] Andrew was the sixth most popular choice for a male infant in 2004. [47] In 2002 and 2001, Andrew was the seventh most popular baby name in the United States. [48] [49] [50] In the 1980s, Andrew was the 19th most popular ...
Tissot, James, The calling of Peter and Andrew. The calling of the disciples is a key episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament. [2] [3] It appears in Matthew 4:18–22, Mark 1:16-20 and Luke 5:1–11 on the Sea of Galilee. John 1:35–51 reports the first encounter with two of the disciples a little earlier in the presence of John the ...
There is a parallel account in Mark 1:16–20 and a similar but different story in Luke 5:1–11, the Luke story not including the phrase "fishers of men" (or similar wording). The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges calls Matthew 4:19 a "condensed parable", [1] drawn out at slightly greater length later in the same gospel. [2]
In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles. Saint Andrew. Other saints named Andrew include: Saint Andrew of Trier (died 235), Bishop of Trier; Saints Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Denise, 3rd-century martyrs of the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches
Some were inclined to favor el-Mes‛adīyeh which stands on an artificial mound about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from the mouth of the River Jordan. However, the name is in origin radically different from Bethsaida. The substitution of sīn for ṣād is easy, but the insertion of the guttural ‛ain is impossible. [citation needed]
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Saint Andrew commonly refers to Andrew the Apostle, the Christian apostle and brother of Peter, but may also refer to: Saint Andrew Stratelates, d. 300;