BSN Glossary: People

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• APOSTLES
• AQUILA AND PRISCA/PRISCILLA
• Canaanites
• centurion – a Roman military officer with 100 (like “century”) soldiers under his command
• Cephas
• THE COUNCIL
• DISCIPLES
• elders – leaders of a group, usually older
• elect – a noun referring to those who are chosen or selected
• Esau
• Eusebius
• EPHRAIM (OT)
• THE GREATEST GENERATION OF ALL
• GENTILES
• HEROD
• Hoshea the son of Nun (OT)
• Israel as God’s Son
• Jacob
• James the apostle and son of Zebedee
• James the son of Joseph, the brother of Jesus and Jude
• JEWS
• John the apostle and son of Zebedee
• John the Baptist
• John Mark
• Joshua (OT)
• Judah (OT)
• Jude the son of Joseph, the brother of Jesus and James
• JUDAS ISCARIOT
• Luke
• Mark
• MANASSEH (OT)
• Moses (OT)
• Moses’ father-in-law (OT)
• Paul
• Peter
• PHARISEES
• Philemon
• priests – those who worked in and around Jerusalem’s temple, administering animal sacrifices, maintaining copies of the Scriptures, and teaching the people; at any given time, there were multiple chief priests but only one high priest; the descendants of Jacob’s son Levi (one of twelve) were given to the priesthood, with the descendants of the Levite Aaron (Moses’ brother) having a privileged place among them, such that the Levites assisted the Aaronic priests
• PRISCA/PRISCILLA AND AQUILA
• prophet – a spokesman for God
• Prophets Major and Minor
• rabbi – a Jewish term for teacher or master (John 1:38)
• rabboni – a Jewish term for teacher or master (John 20:16)
• SADDUCEES
• THE SANHEDRIN
• scribes – religious professionals who copied the Bible and other literature by hand; (the printing press wouldn’t be invented for another 1,400 years)
• Silas
• Simon Peter
• son – e.g. The 12 sons (tribes) of Israel (Jacob)
• tetrarch – when the Romans conquered a territory and divided into four regions, as they did with the area in and around Israel, the ruler of each of those four sub-territories was called a tetrarch; “tetra” was the Greek word for “four” and “arch” was from the Greek word for “rule” and thus “tetrarch” meant the rule of four just “monarchy” meant the rule of one; an example a tetrarchy was the Herodian Tetrarchy (see King Herod above)
• Timothy
• Titus
• tribe – e.g. The 12 sons (tribes) of Israel (Jacob)
• (The) twelve – a reference to Jesus’ original twelve apostles
• WITNESS
• Zebedee – father of James and John, two of Jesus’ original twelve apostles

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