have been assigned we need not care to fix on any one as that which
simply led him on. Crime is, for the most part, the result of a hundred
motives rushing with bewildering fury through the mind of the criminal.”
(3.) A Jew of Damascus (Acts 9:11), to whose house Ananias was sent.
The street called “Straight” in which it was situated is identified with the
modern “street of bazaars,” where is still pointed out the so-called “house
of Judas.”
(4.) A Christian teacher, surnamed Barsabas. He was sent from Jerusalem
to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas with the decision of the council
(Acts 15:22, 27, 32). He was a “prophet” and a “chief man among the
brethren.”
- JUDE = Judas. Among the apostles there were two who bore this name,
(1) Judas (Jude 1:1; Matthew 13:55; John 14:22; Acts 1:13), called also
Lebbaeus or Thaddaeus (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18); and (2) Judas Iscariot
(Matthew 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. - JUDEA After the Captivity this name was applied to the whole of the
country west of the Jordan (Hag. 1:1, 14; 2:2). But under the Romans, in
the time of Christ, it denoted the southernmost of the three divisions of
Palestine (Matthew 2:1, 5; 3:1; 4:25), although it was also sometimes used
for Palestine generally (Acts 28:21).
The province of Judea, as distinguished from Galilee and Samaria, included
the territories of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Dan, Simeon, and part of
Ephraim. Under the Romans it was a part of the province of Syria, and
was governed by a procurator.
- JUDE, EPISTLE OF The author was “Judas, the brother of James” the
Less (Jude 1:1), called also Lebbaeus (Matthew 10:3) and Thaddaeus
(Mark 3:18). The genuineness of this epistle was early questioned, and
doubts regarding it were revived at the time of the Reformation; but the
evidences in support of its claims are complete. It has all the marks of
having proceeded from the writer whose name it bears.
There is nothing very definite to determine the time and place at which it
was written. It was apparently written in the later period of the apostolic
age, for when it was written there were persons still alive who had heard