Thank you for the beautiful essay/post, Alamo-Girl!
Plus one more thing: the names "Philip" and "Andrew" both derive from Greek roots; i.e., these Apostles seem not to have been Jews, but Greeks (at least by culture).
1,025 posted on 09/12/2006 12:59:38 PM PDT by betty boop
(Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)