ABSTRACT
We know little about the apostle Thaddeus. Along with Andrew and Philip, he was one of three apostles with a non-Hebrew name. Matthew and Mark place him tenth in their apostolic lists, right after James, the son of Alphaeus (Matt 10:3; Mark 3:18). Assuming Thaddeus and Judas, the son of James, are the same person, Luke places him eleventh, right before Judas Iscariot (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13). It seems most likely that the names Thaddeus and Judas, son of James, do in fact refer to the same person.1
