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(1) Judas (Jude 1:1; Matthew 13:55; John 14:22; Acts 1:13), called also
Lebbaeus or Thaddaeus (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18); and (2) Judas Iscariot
(Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:19). He who is called ?the brother of James?
(Luke 6:16), may be the same with the Judas surnamed Lebbaeus. The
only thing recorded regarding him is in John 14:22.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>JUDEA After the Captivity this name was applied to the whole of the
country west of the Jordan (Hag. 1:1, 14; 2:2). But under the Romans, in
the time of Christ, it denoted the southernmost of the three divisions of
Palestine (Matthew 2:1, 5; 3:1; 4:25), although it was also sometimes used
for Palestine generally (Acts 28:21).
The province of Judea, as distinguished from Galilee and Samaria, included
the territories of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Dan, Simeon, and part of
Ephraim. Under the Romans it was a part of the province of Syria, and
was governed by a procurator.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>JUDE, EPISTLE OF The author was ?Judas, the brother of James? the
Less (Jude 1:1), called also Lebbaeus (Matthew 10:3) and Thaddaeus
(Mark 3:18). The genuineness of this epistle was early questioned, and
doubts regarding it were revived at the time of the Reformation; but the
evidences in support of its claims are complete. It has all the marks of
having proceeded from the writer whose name it bears.
There is nothing very definite to determine the time and place at which it
was written. It was apparently written in the later period of the apostolic
age, for when it was written there were persons still alive who had heard
the apostles preach (ver. 17). It may thus have been written about A.D. 66
or 70, and apparently in Palestine.
The epistle is addressed to Christians in general (ver. 1), and its design is
to put them on their guard against the misleading efforts of a certain class
of errorists to which they were exposed. The style of the epistle is that of
an ?impassioned
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