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.

I bet this thread doesn't get whacked like mine did.

Because they were trying to hide the fact that that disciple was Jesus’s brother.

John just wanting to let everyone know Jesus loved him

Because it involved an ongoing investigation with Wikileaks

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It was John and because he was the author he didn’t want to seem arrogant to readers.

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This.

In Judea 2000 years ago, using the first person was considered pompous. Almost the opposite of today where if you're full of yourself, you refer to yourself in the third person.

Thank you. Correct. Andrew was the bringer but the one referred to as the one Jesus loved is John.

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.