John 1:40

‘One of the two who heard John speak and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.'

In a passage where names are continually given the total silence as to the name of Andrew's companion is profoundly significant. It cannot have been forgotten. Too many remembered that day, and after all they were the first disciples of Jesus. We must therefore see the silence as deliberate, and in the face of the fact that the name of the Apostle John is never mentioned in the Gospel the inevitable conclusion is that it was the writer himself, and that the writer was the Apostle John.