⚠ ‘Cananaean’ is not a place-name and has nothing to do with Canaan — Kananaios transliterates the Aramaic qan’an, ‘zealous one’, which Luke simply translates into Greek: ‘Simon who was called the ZEALOT’ (Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13, neither yet on these pages). By the mid-first century that title marked a real political stance — commitment to armed resistance against Roman rule, the movement that would eventually drive the war of AD 66–70 — though it is disputed how organized or formal a ‘Zealot party’ yet was in Jesus’ own lifetime as opposed to a general disposition. Nothing else is recorded of him anywhere in the New Testament. ⚠ What is worth noting is only the list he stands in: three names away from Matthew the tax collector (see the entry), a man whose former livelihood was collecting Rome’s own revenue — a revolutionary and a collaborator, called by the same voice into the same twelve.