Jude Greek : Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου translit. Catholic writer Michal Hunt suggests that Judas Svart albino jude became known as Jude after early translators of the New Testament from Greek into English sought to distinguish him from Judas Iscariot and subsequently abbreviated his forename.
In the Roman Catholic Churchhe is the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. Jude is commonly attributed with a club. He is also often shown in icons with a flame around his head. This represents his presence at Pentecostwhen he received the Holy Spirit with the other apostles.
In some instances, he may be shown with a scroll or a book the Epistle of Jude or holding a carpenter's rule. Jude is clearly distinguished from Judas Iscariotanother apostle and later the betrayer of Jesus. Both Jude and Judas are translations of the name Ὶούδας in the Koine Greek language original text of the New Testamentwhich in turn is a Greek variant of Judah Y'hudaha name which was common among Jews at the time.
In most Bibles in languages other than English and French, Jude and Judas are referred to by the same name. Catholic tradition generally holds all four to be the same person, [ citation needed ] while Protestants generally believe 1 and 2 to be one person, [9] although theologian Raymond Brown saw the identification as uncertain.
Translations into English from the original Greek of the New Testament vary in their rendering of Luke and Acts A literal translation of the references to Jude in these passages gives "Jude of James" Greek : Ἰούδας Ἰακώβουas in Young's Literal Translation of the Bible, but scholars differ on whether this means "Jude, brother of James" or "Jude, son of James".
The King James and the Douay-Rheims versions call him "Judas the brother of James", making him the same person as the writer of the Epistle of Judewho identifies himself as "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James" Jude Protestant scholar Darrell L.
Bock writes that it must mean "son" not "brother", because when "brother" is intended, the Greek word for "brother" adelphos is present. Additionally the use of the genitive case of "James" Iakovou in Greek, usually signifies or implies the person's father to Svart mode distinguished from his homonyms.
Opinion is divided on whether Jude the apostle was also Jude, brother of Jesusthe traditional author of the Epistle of Jude. According to the surviving fragments of the work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord of the Apostolic Father Papias of Hierapoliswho lived c.
Mary the wife of Cleophas or Alphaeus, who was the mother of James the bishop and apostle, and of Simon and Thaddeus, and of one Joseph Fragment X [15]. In the apostolic lists at Matthew and MarkJude is omitted, but there is a Thaddeus or in some manuscripts of Matthew"Lebbaeus who was surnamed Thaddaeus", as in the King James Version listed in his place.
This has led many Christians since early times to harmonize the lists by positing a "Jude Thaddeus", known by either name. This is made plausible by the fact that "Thaddeus" seems to be a nickname see Thaddeus and that many New Testament figures have multiple names such as Simon Peter and Joseph Barnabas.
A further reason is the fact that the name "Judas" was tarnished by Judas Iscariot. It has been argued that for this reason, it is unsurprising that Mark and Matthew refer to him by an alternate name.