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What disciple was a zealot?

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In Mark's Gospel, Simon (not Simon Peter) is called "the Cananaean". This may mean:

He was from the village of Cana, where John 2 says a wedding took place. This is believed to be unlikely.
He was a Canaanite. Again, this is believed to be unlikely.
From qan'ana, he was a former Zealot.
Luke accepts this, replacing the word with 'zealot'.

A direct reference in answer to the question is found in Luke's identification of "the twelve":

Luke 6:13-16 - And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles: Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot; Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who also became a traitor. [NKJV]

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