Simon the Zealot hoped that Jesus would inaugurate the kingdom of God on earth by overthrowing the Roman empire, but after listening to Jesus for years, he began to realize that his hope for the ...

Simon the Apostle is the patron saint of saw workers and tanners, and is one of only two apostles with no quotes recorded in the Bible (St. James the Less is the other quote-less apostle).

Just as Simon is distinguished as the “Zealot” or “Canaanite” to mark him off from Peter, so Jude is distinguished from Judas Iscariot by also be referred to as “Thaddeus” (great ...

In Matthew 10:3 and Mark 3:18 Jude Thaddeus was listed as the 10th apostle and Simon the Zealot was 11th. However, in Luke 6:15 and Acts 1:13 , Simon the Patriot was 10th and Jude, called James ...

Simon was a common name in ancient Israel, and this Simon had an epithet — “the Zealot’'— to distinguish him from Simon Peter, and to denote his zeal for the Christian faith.