John 1:35 Commentary and Bible Study

Who are the two disciples? One is named, he is Andrew, and the other is most probably the apostle John himself. He never names himself. When he desires to refer to himself elsewhere in the gospel, he finds a way of doing it in which there is no need to use his name. He would surely have named the other one if it were not he himself. And there is a special clue in the passage which we will come to in due course, where John even gives the time in which a particular encounter took place. So it is written by an eyewitness, and it is easy to assume that John is the other disciple, the unnamed one.