40" One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter)."
John 1:40-42
The first thing that Andrew, one of the two disciples mentioned in the previous verses, did was to bring his own brother to Jesus. Is not this wonderful? There is something very moving when a man leads his natural brother into a relationship with Christ so that he becomes a spiritual brother too. Someone has pointed out that Andrew is scarcely ever mentioned in Scripture except in terms of introducing someone to Christ: it was he who brought the young lad with the five loaves and two small fishes to Jesus, as also the Greeks, when they came to the disciples saying 'Sirs, we would see Jesus'.
But 41 can be read another way: 'He was the first to find his own brother', the implication being that the other disciple (who surely was John) went off to find his, but Andrew was first to do so. And the way he did so was not by argument or discussion but by testimony and proclamation. And when he said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah', it was as if he had said, ‘We have found the answer, and what we have been seeking all our lives'. This is the kind of testimony that is able to bring others to Christ. Our Lord's words to Simon (43), 'Thou art...thou shalt be' ring like glorious music in the ear. They are prophetic of the gospel's grace and power in any and every life that is brought to Christ. By the grace of God, what we are today, as we read these words, need not be determinative of all our future, for there is a Saviour, risen, exalted and all-powerful, Who is able to say - and does say - to discouraged and despairing hearts, 'Thou shalt be'.