Bible Person
Male · 3 cross references
This Jude entry refers to Jude, the brother of James and traditionally identified with the New Testament letter bearing his name, not to Judas Iscariot. In the Gospel family references he appears among Jesus' brothers, and in the epistle he writes as a servant of Jesus Christ. First appears in Matt 13:55.1
AI summary: Jude matters because the cross references hold together two important dimensions of his place in the New Testament: his connection to Jesus' earthly family and his mature witness as a humble Christian teacher. Rather than pressing family status, the epistle presents him as a servant warning believers against corruption and urging them to persevere in the faith once delivered. Taken together, the material presents Jude as a restrained but weighty voice linking the household of Jesus to the doctrinal vigilance of the early church.1
= Judas. Among the apostles there were two who bore this name, (1) Judas (Jude 1:1; Matt. 13:55; John 14:22; Acts 1:13), called also Lebbaeus or Thaddaeus (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18); and (2) Judas Iscariot (Matt. 10:4; Mark 3:19). He who is called “the brother of James” (Luke 6:16), may be the same with the Judas surnamed Lebbaeus. The only thing recorded regarding him is in John 14:22. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.