Search results for "Simon the Zealot" - New World Encyclopedia

as suffering martyrdom together with Simon the Zealot in Persia. The fourteenth ... Lebanon together with the apostle Simon the Zealot, with whom he is usually ...

In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...

c. 30 C.E. whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem ... Barabbas had been charged with the crime of treason against Rome—the ...

an individual commissioned by God to spread the "good news" of the ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...

The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...

A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... In ancient biblical times, the Israelites were strictly warned to ...

Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה ... for Jews. Its story has helped to counter the sentiment that Jews were always ...

In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is ... Despite his notorious role in the Gospel narratives, Judas is still ...

Jews) is a term which can have two meanings. The first describes the members ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...

), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...

, (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground ... achievement as prime minister--and in the view of many, his singular ...

as a major prophet and some regard him as the Messiah. Many Hindus also ... described as a peacemaker, as a militant zealot, as a feminist, as a magician ...

and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...