Matt 4:18-20
     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 lake, for they were fishermen.  "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him. 
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Mark 1:29-31
    As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew.  Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.
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John 1:35-51
     The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!"  When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.  Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you want?" 
They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"  "Come," he replied, "and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour. Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus.  The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus. 
Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which, when translated, is Peter). The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, "Follow me." Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote-Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."  "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip.  When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false." 
 "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you."  Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel." Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that." He then added, "I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." 
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HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS

    Andrew was the first apostle chosen by Jesus. He was born in Bethsaida by the sea where he was a fisherman which he abandoned  to follow John the Baptist.   His area of  ministry  is believed to have been in Scythia north of the Black Sea. He was the patron saint of Russia as well as the patron saint of Scotland. His ministry took him to Macedonia, Thrace, Turkey, Russia and Greece.

He was martyred in Patras, Greece on the last day of November, 69 AD. The origin of the term "St. Andrew's Cross" comes from his being crucified on an X-shaped cross which had two ends in the ground instead of one.  To prolong his suffering he was bound to the cross instead of being nailed to it.  His head was brought to St Peters in Rome in 1461 and remained there until 1964. It was returned to the Greek Orthodox Church in Patras, Greece under the direction of Pope Paul VI.  Andrew's last words were: "Accept me, O Christ Jesus, whom I saw, whom I love, and in whom I am; accept my spirit in peace in your eternal realm".

                    Life size bronze sculpture by Bill McCown, Edition of 3, Price on request.