- 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