Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Simon the Canaanite—rather "Kananite," but better still, "the Zealot," as he is called in Luke 6:15, where the original term should not have been retained as in our version ("Simon, called Zelotes"), but rendered "Simon, called the Zealot." The word "Kananite" is just the Aramaic, or Syro-Chaldaic, term for "Zealot." Probably before his acquaintance with Jesus, he belonged to the sect of the Zealots, who bound themselves, as a sort of voluntary ecclesiastical police, to see that the law was not broken with impunity.
and Judas Iscariot—that is, Judas of Kerioth, a town of Judah (Joshua 15:25); so called to distinguish him from "Judas the brother of James" (Luke 6:16).
who also betrayed him—a note of infamy attached to his name in all the catalogues of the Twelve.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 10:4:
Matthew 10:1
Matthew 13:56
Luke 6:13-16
Acts 1:13
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