In the Easter gospel...why is Andrew’s name redacted?

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It’s Andrew who’s Peter’s brother but it seems really weird that his name is redacted

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Trump needs to declassify the New Testament.

I don’t remember if this particular situation is because of this, but the literature about the backstory behind the gospels is fascinating. In short, different sects in the early church were rather antagonistic towards one another and tended to deemphasize the namesakes of the version of the gospel their “opponents” preferred. I’ve read authors who believe the story of Doubting Thomas was fabricated from whole cloth in order to discredit the sect following the gospel of Thomas.

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“the other disciple whom Jesus loved”? It’s Andrew who’s Peter’s brother

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It isn't Andrew, it's John. My understanding is that, when recounting things via written word, referring to oneself in the third person and not by name was a common thing in the time that the Gospel of John was written.

It is John, not Andrew.

Because it involved an ongoing investigation with Wikileaks

It was John.
He also writes that they both ran to the tomb but he beat Simon Peter there.

A little shout out to himself for being faster.