Jude The Evangelist
Jude The Evangelist (?-70AD) was a sovereign grace Baptist preacher. After the ascension of Christ, he preached the gospel and organized churches in places such as Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia, Edessa and Persia. He it is who authored the New Testament book which bears his name.
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The Letter Of Jude
The letter of Jude was written in the year 66AD to a group of churches. The chart below provides a bird’s-eye view of the chronological order for the books of the New Testament. John Gill, “Commentary On The New Testament Scriptures”: “That this epistle was written by Jude, one of the twelve apostles of Christ, and not by Jude the fifteenth bishop of Jerusalem, who lived in the time of Trojan, a little before Bar Cocab, the false Messiah, as Grotius thought, is evident from his being called, in the epistle itself, the brother of James, and which is confirmed by all copies; and its agreement with the second epistle of Peter shows it to have been written about the same time, and upon the…
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41. The Apostle Simon
Simon the Zealot Crucified in Syria, A.D. 70 Simon Zelotes And His Brother Judas Thaddeus, Both Slain For The Truth Of Christ; The One Crucified, And The Other Beaten To Death With Sticks, About A.D. 70 Simon the Canaanite, surnamed Zelotes, that is, Zealot, the son of Alpheus, the brother of James, Joses, and Juda, and a relative of Christ, was constituted by Christ one of His twelve apostles, to preach the Gospel, first among the Jews, and afterwards among the heathen; to which end he, together with the others who were in like ministry with him, received the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. Matt. 10:4; Acts 1:13; Matt. 13:55; Mark 6:3. He traveled in Egypt, Cyrene, Africa, Mauritania, throughout Lybia, and in…
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The Letter Of Jude
