Jude

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• Jude or Judas (יהודה "Praise", Standard Hebrew Yəhuda, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhûḏāh) was the name of several people in the New Testament. The original Greek text of the New Testament makes no difference between the names "Judah", "Judas" and "Jude", rendering them all as Ioudas; but in many English translations "Judah" is used for the Old Testament figure and the tribe named after him, "Judas" is used only for Judas Iscariot, and "Jude" for all other New Testament persons of the same name.

1. Judas the Zealot (Matthew 13:55; John 14:22; Acts 1:13), an apostle also called Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18); the Decretum Gelasianum lists among texts accepted in the canon the epistle of "Judas the Zealot". Also known as Saint Jude, he is the patron saint of seemingly hopeless causes in the Catholic Church.
2. Judas Iscariot (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:19);
3. The Judas called "the son of James" (Luke 6:16), may be the same with the Judas surnamed Thaddaeus. The only thing recorded regarding him is in John 14:22.
4. Jude Thomas, usually identified as Thomas, a brother of Jesus and James the Just. Eusebius records the fact he had two grandsons living in the time of the Emperor Domitian who shared a farm 10 acres (40,000 m²) in size worth 9000 pieces of silver.

• The Epistle of Jude contained in the New Testament of the Bible is commonly referred to as Jude.

  By internal evidence, the author of the Epistle of Jude appears to be either the Apostle Jude, or Jude the brother of Jesus. The identification at Rome recorded in the Decretum Gelasianum was "Judas the Zealot". Modern scholarship dating this work a couple of generations later than the time of either Jude is discussed at Epistle of Jude.

• Hey Jude is a popular song by the Beatles.

• Jude was also a medieval Romanian judge over an area called a Judeţ.

• Jude is also a computer program to design Unified Modeling Language diagrams.

• Jude is an American musician and songwriter.

• Jude is a film version of Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, directed by Michael Winterbottom.

• Jude was the middle name of the American actor River Phoenix, who died on October 31, 1993.

• Jude is also the name of a novel by Kate Morgenroth.Template:Disambig