During these last few days we’ve been looking at the most unremarkable events recorded in the New Testament which include Andrew, who was one of Jesus’s disciples. There are only three places where he is mentioned in his own right, and this is the third of them. Remember that Philip and Andrew were the closest of friends, so when in doubt, they conferred:
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir” they said, “we would like to see Jesus”. Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.
Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. …” John 12: 20-24John 12: 20-24
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20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: ²¹ The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. ²² Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. ²³ And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. ²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.  

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Now hang on a minute. What’s going on here? Surely not something racial? The Greeks who wanted to see Jesus were Hellenists. They represented a culture foreign to the strict Hebrew faith of the Holy Land. Perhaps this Jesus had nothing to offer people like them. They were from another part of the world: perhaps they’d better tread gently. So they asked Philip – “Can we see Jesus?” Philip reflects the hesitancy. Such a lot would hang on it. “I’ll talk to Andrew, see what he says”.
After discussing it, Philip and Andrew go and tell Jesus about this request. You see, they may not have been Hellenistic Jews, but pagan Greeks up for the feast – like a curious Christian might want to experience the Islamic pilgrimages in Mecca, if he dare risk his life, or visit the Ganges holy places at a Hindu festival. Jerusalem was not supposed to be like that because the outer court was open to non-Jews. It was a place of refuge, when not cluttered with lean-to shacks of the market traders, and their stalls. So Andrew and Philip were merely links in a chain -that’s all! They took the problem to Jesus. But remember, that the strongest chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Andrew, for one, had the Christian sense to ‘take it to the Lord’. The response of Jesus was world-shaking. The glory day! “His hour” John calls it, was not one of a world-conquering warrior Messiah, smashing all pagan nations to pulp, but the glory was to be shown in a dying and rising Saviour of the world. Seed preserved remains seed – seed buried in the soil creates harvests. Andrew would not understand it, but he was already part of it. The Greek world, the Roman world, the whole world, would see Jesus – but this glory would only come from the cross and resurrection. All that had to come first.
A Prayer: Lord, I do not understand, but I know I am part of your wondrous story. Now read Luke 24: 13-35Luke 24: 13-35
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13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. ¹⁴ And they talked together of all these things which had happened. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. ¹⁶ But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. ¹⁷ And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? ¹⁸ And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? ¹⁹ And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: ²⁰ And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. ²¹ But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. ²² Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; ²³ And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. ²⁴ And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. ²⁵ Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: ²⁶ Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? ²⁷ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. ²⁸ And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. ²⁹ But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. ³⁰ And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. ³¹ And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. vanished...: or, ceased to be seen of them ³² And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? ³³ And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, ³⁴ Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. ³⁵ And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.  

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