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Andrew was thoroughly bewildered, well-nigh confused. He was the one apostle who did not
seriously undertake to evaluate the popular outburst of acclaim. He was too preoccupied with the
thought of his responsibility as chief of the apostolic corps to give serious consideration to the
meaning or significance of the loud hosannas of the multitude. Andrew was busy watching some
of his associates whom he feared might be led away by their emotions during the excitement,
particularly Peter, James, John, and Simon Zelotes. Throughout this day and those which
immediately followed, Andrew was troubled with serious doubts, but he never expressed any of
these misgivings to his apostolic associates. He was concerned about the attitude of some of the
twelve who he knew were armed with swords; but he did not know that his own brother, Peter,
was carrying such a weapon. And so the procession into Jerusalem made a comparatively
superficial impression upon Andrew; he was too busy with the responsibilities of his office to be
otherwise affected.