Simeon (Man living at the time of the New Testament)

Simeon was Jacob's second son, and along with his brother Levi he carried out the massacre of Shechem's men after their sister Dinah's rape, an act of vengeance their father Jacob condemned on his deathbed. His tribe's territory was eventually absorbed within Judah's rather than remaining independent. A very different Simeon, centuries later, was a devout old man in Jerusalem who had been promised he would not die before seeing the Messiah, and he recognized the infant Jesus the moment Mary and Joseph brought him to the temple.