Religion & Spirituality
Don’t imagine that Peter, Andrew, James, and John were great men. Don’t imagine that they were diamonds in the rough and that Jesus saw the underlying greatness in them and chose them for that reason. If anything, Jesus was aware of their underlying pettiness and of their readiness to be bullies or to be cowards. But great men? I don’t think so. Probably the truest thing to say about Peter, Andrew, James, and John is also the truest thing to say about Isaiah, and maybe even the truest thing to say about Jesus. And that is, they were available.