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1 day ago · Simon (the Cananaean or the Zealot) St. Simon, by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1611, Source: Museo del Prado, Madrid Simon’s name is attached to the nickname “the Cananaean” or “the Zealot” in lists of the Twelve Disciples in the New Testament as a way to distinguish him from the disciple Peter, who was also known as Simon.
5 days ago · St. Thomas established the Church of the East there, and St. Jude soon followed, becoming the Church’s leader and traveling through Mesopotamia, Libya, Turkey and Persia where, with the apostle St. Simon the Zealot, he preached and brought souls to Christ.
1 day ago · Two stark examples of this are Simon the Zealot and Matthew the tax collector. One tradition about Simon is that his moniker “the Zealot” identified him as a member of a revolutionary group that advocated and worked to overthrow the Roman occupation. Matthew was despised by the Jewish people because he worked for the Romans collecting taxes.
2 days ago · We owe him our utmost allegiance. Everything else is secondary. Therefore, we don’t break the unity we have in Jesus over politics. Two of Jesus’ disciples, Simon the Zealot and Matthew the tax collector, would have come from opposing political camps, but they were united in their love for Jesus.
4 days ago · When Peter heard the invitation to follow Jesus, he was a fisherman. When Matthew heard, he was a tax collector. Mary Magdalene was a sex worker. Simon was a zealot. Nicodemus was a pharisee. Everyone who hears the invitation to follow Jesus responds from within the social context in which they live. The salvation experience is indeed transformational, but modern evangelistic efforts tend to focus on who a person is being formed into without sufficiently recognizing how the person was ...
1 day ago · Thomas the Apostle ( Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized: Tʾōmā, meaning "the twin"), [a] also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.
4 days ago · BRUCK, Connie (1980) “ Waning Days for the Zealot at the SEC,” The American Lawyer 16 (November). Google Scholar CARY , William L. ( 1964 ) “ Administrative Agencies and the Securities and Exchange Commission ,” 29 Law and Contemporary Problems 653 .
