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Judas son of James

The OTHER Judas among the Twelve — listed by Luke both in his Gospel (6:16) and here, and identified by his father precisely so that nobody confuses him with Iscariot. John 14:22 gives him one line of dialogue and takes the same care: 'Judas — not Iscariot — said to him…'. Matthew and Mark call the same man Thaddaeus (and some manuscripts, Lebbaeus), which is either a second name or a second tradition; the church has generally treated the names as belonging to one person. That two of the Twelve shared a name is a small fact with a long shadow: after the betrayal, the second Judas needed a qualifier for the rest of history.

in the text Acts 1:13
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