One of the Twelve

Simon the Zealot

Named among the apostles. The epithet distinguishes him from Simon Peter; his precise background is not supplied.

Let the text introduce them.

Begin with Luke 6; Acts 1. Notice what the passage tells you, what it leaves unsaid, and what you may have brought to it from other retellings.

What question would you bring to this person’s story? Read slowly enough to notice a detail you have passed over before.

Sources: Luke 6; Acts 1. Images are imagined reconstructions. Where the biblical text gives few details, we preserve that uncertainty.