John 1:40 BSB — MannaFest

John 1:40

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

One of the two that heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

KJV

One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

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Commentary

1 voice

Theodore of Mopsuestia

COMMENTARY ON JOHN 1.1.39-41 (428)

He says that one of those who followed him was Andrew, brother of Simon, without mentioning the other. Evidently this is the blessed John himself. He always appears to pass in silence over those things that concern him. And also whenever he relates something concerning …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

These verses ought always to be interesting to every true Christian. They describe the first beginnings of the Christian Church. Vast as that church is now, there was a time when it consisted of only two weak members. The calling of those two members is described in the passage which is now before our eyes. We see, for one thing, in these verses, what good is done by continually testifying of Christ. The first time that John the Baptist cried, "Behold the Lamb of God," no result appears to have followed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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].

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἦν	ēn	Was	G1510 →
Ἀνδρέας	Andreas	Andrew	G406 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἀδελφὸς	adelphos	brother	G80 →
Σίμωνος	Simōnos	of Simon	G4613 →
Πέτρου	Petrou	Peter	G4074 →
εἷς	heis	one	G1520 →
ἐκ	ek	of	G1537 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
τῶν	tōn	which	G3588 →
ἀκουσάντων	akousantōn	having heard	G191 →
παρὰ	para	from	G3844 →
Ἰωάννου	Iōannou	John	G2491 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀκολουθησάντων	akolouthēsantōn	having followed	G190 →
αὐτῷ.¶	autō	Him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 10:2
These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
leads to
- Matthew 4:21
  Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Jesus called them,
- Acts 1:13
  When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas…
- Luke 5:10
  and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”
- John 6:8
  One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,
- Matthew 4:18
  As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.