The epithet Kananaios is the Greek transliteration of an Aramaic word, qanʾ anaya, meaning “the Zealot, the title given to St. Simon the Apostle by Luke in his Gospel and in Acts.” Simon is called Kananaios, or the Cananaean, in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, but the term has been wrongly interpreted as “from Cana” or “from Canaan.”
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