St Andrew 			November 30
Apostle, Martyr
We learn almost nothing about Andrew from the synoptic Gospels, but he plays a more prominent role in John’s Gospel. There he appears as a disciple of John the Baptist. He and another disciple see Jesus as the fulfilment of John’s prophetic ministry, and decide to follow Jesus instead of John (John 1:35-40). It is Andrew who then effects the introduction to Jesus of his brother Simon Peter (John 1:4f). This story in fact makes intelligible the acceptance of Jesus’ call by these brothers and their fishing partners, the sons of Zebedee, in the synoptic tradition (Matthew 4:18-22), which is otherwise not explained.
Later, Andrew is found associated with another apostle from Bethsaida, Philip. When Jesus tests the disciples by challenging them with the hunger of the multitude, Philip asserts that they could not afford the amount of bread that would be needed. Andrew adds: What use are a few loaves and a couple of fish? (John 6:5-9), but he nevertheless brings the boy with the loaves and fishes to Jesus for the feeding of the multitude. Later in John’s Gospel, at the feast in Jerusalem, some Greeks who want to see Jesus approach Philip, and Philip consults his fellow-townsman, Andrew, who tells Jesus of the request (John 12:20-22). 
As one of the first two to follow Jesus, and also as a kind of bridge with the Gentile world, Andrew is an appropriately missionary apostle. Apart from Andrew’s inclusion among the four who ask Jesus about signs of the end (Mark 13:3), and the listing of his name among the Twelve, the Synoptic Gospels add no further information about him. There are later but unhistorical traditions about his missionary work and eventual martyrdom, including his execution on an X-shaped cross. He is the patron saint of Scotland, on account of the legend of the translation of his relics there in the eighth century.
For Liturgical Use
Andrew figures prominently only in John’s Gospel. There he is one of the first two followers of Jesus and the one who introduced his brother Simon Peter to Jesus. He presented to Jesus the boy with loaves and fishes to be used in the feeding of the multitude. Later he alerts Jesus to the interest of some Greeks in him. He is, then, as characteristic an apostle as any. We have no information about him after the resurrection, though he became the patron saint of Scotland. 
Sentence, Prayers and Readings as in A New Zealand Prayer Book - He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa, page 672