Matthew 10:3

Matthew 10:3 Qaddai/oj {B}

Although it is easy to explain the origin of the conflate readings “Thaddaeus who was called Lebbaeus” and “Lebbaeus who was called Thaddaeus,” it is more difficult to decide whether Qaddai/oj or Lebbai/oj is the original reading. On the basis, however, of the agreement of early representatives of Alexandrian, Western, and Egyptian witnesses, the Committee judged that Qaddai/oj is to be preferred. The reading Judas son of James in syr^s may have been introduced from Luke 6:16 (= Acts 1:13). The name Judas Zelotes in several Old Latin manuscripts (compare also the same name in the fifth century mosaic in the great Baptistry at Ravenna [Battistero degli Ortodossi]) may be a further assimilation to the previous name in Luke’s list, “Simon who was called the Zealot.” ¹⁸

¹⁸ For further information see Eb. Nestle in Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible, IV, pp. 741 f.; W. C. Allen in Encyclopædia Biblica, III, cols. 5031 f.; and Barnabas Lindars in New Testament Studies, IV (1958), pp. 220—223.