What does “to follow someone” mean? If you “follow someone” on twitter or the social network, you read his/her posts to find out what he/she is doing, feeling and thinking. In the game “follow the leader,” the leader is followed and those following imitate whatever the leader is doing.
How do we “follow Jesus”? When Jesus asked the two disciples (Andrew and another disciple of John) in today’s Gospel reading who followed Jesus at the urging of John (“There is the Lamb of God.”) “What are you looking for?” they answered rather lamely, “Rabbi (which means Master), where are you staying?” Jesus said, “Come and see.”
So they went, saw and were so impressed with Jesus they brought others to follow Jesus, “We have found the Messiah.” Andrew and his unnamed companion, Andrew’s brother Simon-Peter, Philip and his friend Nathanael from Cana were the first followers of Christ. They and many others “followed” Jesus in his public ministry, and after Jesus’ death and resurrection and the descent of the Holy Spirit, preached the Good News of Jesus and gave their lives in witness to their faith in and love of Jesus.
We follow Jesus in the same way his first disciples did, this Jesus we know from the Scriptures, the Church and in our prayer-interactions with him.