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Mt 10:4 King James Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Simon the Canaanite--rather "Kananite," but better still, "the Zealot," as he is called in Luk 6:15, where the original term should not have been retained as in our version ("Simon, called Zelotes"), but rendered "Simon, called the Zealot." The word "Kananite" is just the Aramaic, or Syro-Chaldaic, term for "Zealot." Probably before his acquaintance with Jesus, he belonged to the sect of the Zealots, who bound themselves, as a sort of voluntary ecclesiastical police, to see that the law was not broken with impunity.

and Judas Iscariot--that is, Judas of Kerioth, a town of Judah (Jos 15:25); so called to distinguish him from "Judas the brother of James" (Luk 6:16).

who also betrayed him--a note of infamy attached to his name in all the catalogues of the Twelve.
 
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16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?