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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Zelotes (Apostle living at the time of the New Testament)
The Zealot, Luke's way of telling Simon the apostle from Simon Peter, and Matthew and Mark call him Simon the Canaanite, which means the same thing.
The Zealot, Luke's way of telling Simon the apostle from Simon Peter, and Matthew and Mark call him Simon the Canaanite, which means the same thing.
Zelotes, meaning the Zealot, is the epithet attached to the apostle Simon in Luke's lists of the twelve, distinguishing him from Simon Peter (Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13). It likely reflects either former ties to the Jewish Zealot movement, which sought armed resistance to Roman rule, or simply a zealous temperament; Matthew and Mark instead call him Simon the Canaanite, a Semitic term with the same meaning.
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- Luke 6:15
- Acts 1:13
