Simon the Zealot
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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 […]