The Aramaic New Testament

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Luke 7
Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”He said, “Teacher, say on.”
“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”
Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the […]

Why does Luke decide to render Simon as a Zealot? The truth may lie within a unique Aramaic perspective on Luke’s source documents.
 
“And [he] chose twelve of them whom he called Apostles:
Simon, whom he named ‘Rock,’
and Andrew, his brother,
and James,
and John
and Philip
and Bartholomew
and Matthew,
and Thomas,
and James, Alpheus’ son,
and Simon, who was called ‘The Zealot,’
and […]