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• Ananias the High Priest

  High priest in Jerusalem in the mid-first century. In Acts 23–24 he orders that Paul be struck on the mouth as Paul stands before the Sanhedrin, and he later brings charges against Paul before the governor at Caesarea.

• Simon the Tanner

  Simon the tanner was a leather craftsman of Joppa mentioned in Acts 9–10. After raising Tabitha, Peter stayed for many days in Simon's house by the sea, and it was on its housetop, while praying, that Peter saw a vision.

• Maximus the Confessor

  Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662) was a seventh-century Eastern Roman monk and theologian. He is called "the Confessor" because he suffered torture and exile for defending dyothelitism, the doctrine that Christ has two wills, one according to his divinity and one according to his humanity.

• Philip the Evangelist

  Philip the Evangelist appears in the Acts of the Apostles as one of "the seven" chosen in the early Jerusalem church. He preached the gospel in Samaria and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch. He is distinct from Philip the Apostle.

• Simon the Leper

  Simon the Leper was a resident of Bethany in whose house Jesus was dining shortly before His Passion when a woman poured ointment on His head. He is mentioned by name only in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.

• Dionysius the Areopagite

  Dionysius was a man of Athens mentioned in Acts 17:34, a member of the Areopagus who believed after hearing Paul's sermon at the Areopagus.

• Philip the Tetrarch

  A son of Herod the Great, Philip was the tetrarch who ruled the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis northeast of the Sea of Galilee. He is named in Luke 3:1 and is known as the founder of Caesarea Philippi.

• Darius the Mede

  Darius the Mede is a king in the Book of Daniel who receives the kingdom after the fall of Babylon. He had Daniel cast into the lions' den, and after seeing Daniel delivered, he issued a decree honoring God.

• Heber the Kenite

  Heber was a Kenite who appears in Judges 4–5. A descendant of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, he was the husband of Jael, who killed the Canaanite commander Sisera.

• Alexander the Great

  Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) was a king of ancient Macedonia. He overthrew the Persian Empire and built an empire stretching from Greece to the Indus River. The Greek language and culture spread by his conquests formed the backdrop of the intertestamental period and the New Testament era.

• Philip the Tetrarch

  Philip the Tetrarch was a son of Herod the Great who ruled as tetrarch over Ituraea and Trachonitis, the region northeast of the Sea of Galilee. In the New Testament, his name appears in Luke 3:1.

• Gregory the Illuminator

  Gregory the Illuminator converted the king of Armenia in the early fourth century, leading Armenia to adopt Christianity as its state religion. He is venerated as the first head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

• Alexander the Coppersmith

  Alexander the coppersmith is a metalworker mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:14-15. He is recorded as having done Paul "much evil" and as having strongly opposed his teaching.

• Simon the Pharisee

  Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus to a meal at his house in Luke 7. When a woman known as a sinner anointed Jesus' feet with ointment, Simon inwardly objected, and Jesus answered him with the parable of the two debtors.

• Zerah (the Cushite)

  Zerah was a Cushite who led a vast army as far as Mareshah in the days of King Asa of Judah and was defeated. He appears only in 2 Chronicles 14.

• Hadad the Edomite

  Hadad was a member of the Edomite royal family who fled from Edom to Egypt in the time of David and later returned to become an adversary of Solomon. He appears in 1 Kings 11.

• Simon the Zealot

  Simon was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Matthew and Mark call him "Simon the Cananaean," while Luke and Acts call him "Simon the Zealot." Both epithets are understood to mean "Zealot" or "one who is zealous."

• Eliphaz (the Temanite)

  Eliphaz the Temanite appears in the Book of Job as one of the three friends who came to comfort Job after disaster struck him, and he was always the first of them to speak. He interpreted Job's suffering as the result of sin and was rebuked by God.

• Barzillai (the Meholathite)

  Barzillai the Meholathite was the father of Adriel, who married Merab, the eldest daughter of Saul. He is an Old Testament figure named only once, in 2 Samuel 21:8, and is a different person from Barzillai the Gileadite, who aided David.

• Reading Through the Bible

  Reading through the Bible is the practice of reading the entire Bible in order, from beginning to end, according to a set plan. In Korean churches it is widely practiced through New Year "read the Bible through in one year" reading schedules, Bible-reading gatherings, and audio and app-based reading.