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Reference: Symeon
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1. An ancestor of Jesus (Lu 3:30). 2. A prophet and teacher at Antioch (Ac 13:1). 3. Ac 15:14 = Simon Peter (see Peter).
1. An ancestor of Jesus (Lu 3:30). 2. A prophet and teacher at Antioch (Ac 13:1). 3. Ac 15:14 = Simon Peter (see Peter).
the son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
There were prophets and teachers in the congregation at Antioch. This included: Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Simeon declared how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.