{"id":90531,"date":"2026-04-23T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=90531"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:42:21","slug":"from-matthew-the-tax-collector-to-simon-the-zealot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2026\/04\/from-matthew-the-tax-collector-to-simon-the-zealot\/","title":{"rendered":"From Matthew the Tax Collector to Simon the Zealot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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My fellow Patheos blogger Paul Thompson<\/a> points out that \u201cJesus\u2019s \u2018church\u2019 combined a Zealot committed to the overthrow of Roman rule of Palestine, and a tax collector who colluded with the Roman rulers for his own benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thompson is writing about the different kinds of diversity in the church\u2013not just of race, gender, and the usual DEI canons, but of ancillary beliefs and, his main focus, different kinds of personalities<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In his post at Anxious Bench<\/em>, How Diversity Drives Sanctification After Easter<\/a>, Thompson, a history professor at North Greenville University, goes on to consider the various personality profiles\u2013according to Myers Briggs, Ennegram, etc.\u2013and leadership styles, how some of these personalities tend to conflict with other of these personalities and how important it is for Christians to deal with these in a positive way.<\/p>\n

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He concludes, citing the Scripture \u201cAs iron sharpens iron,\u00a0<\/span>so one person sharpens another\u201d (Proverbs 27:17),\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The only way iron can sharpen iron is by creating much friction between the two pieces of iron. Usually by hitting. Friction requires contact. Contact requires very close proximity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you divorce because things are too difficult, if you leave a church every time you are offended, you lose proximity, and contact, and friction, and thereby you lose the opportunity to be sharpened by the relationships in your life. This means you don\u2019t have to change, which means you don\u2019t have to learn anything new. In the context of our Christian journey, these separations can mean we abandon a relationship through which the Holy Spirit was working to make us more Christlike. We could be avoiding a key aspect of the sanctification process (being in community with other believers) as God designed it. How else would we develop the fruit of the spirit \u2014 patience, kindness, etc. \u2014 if it wasn\u2019t through relationships with fellow believers that rub us the wrong way?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting post\u2013I recommend you read all of it<\/a>\u2013and he makes a very good point:\u00a0 Personality conflicts can be good for us and for the church.<\/p>\n

Today in our age of church shopping it has become easy when we encounter conflicts to flee from one congregation to another, so that our congregations have become more homogeneous.\u00a0 And church communities can become a force for unhealthy conformity.\u00a0 The old parish model in which everyone attended the congregation of their confession that was closest to them, ensuring the mixing of Christians of different personalities, backgrounds, and social positions, was no doubt far more salutary.<\/p>\n

So can there be different political beliefs in the church?\u00a0 That is, can people of widely divergent political convictions agree with each other when it comes to holding a common Christian faith, in following Jesus?\u00a0 The examples of Simon and Matthew would indicate yes.<\/p>\n

I would argue, though, that many of the polarizing conflicts today are not so much political as moral<\/em> (e.g., abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia) and differences in world view<\/em> (feminism, transgenderism, relativism).\u00a0 These are, in effect, religious<\/em> issues.\u00a0 Those kinds of disagreements are difficult to reconcile in a common religion<\/em>.\u00a0 Congregations and church bodies must share a common faith and confession.\u00a0 Indeed, that common faith and confession is what makes it possible for people of different personalities, background, social conditions\u2013as well as different races, genders, and political beliefs\u2013to come together as one body.<\/p>\n

Those of us who have been around for awhile can remember having both political liberals and political conservatives in our congregations, with lively but usually good-humored debates and teasing at church dinners.\u00a0 But back then\u00a0 both Democrats and Republicans, New Deal liberals and fiscal conservatives, would both be horrified at abortion and the sexual revolution.<\/p>\n

Today political differences have morphed into something else entirely, becoming antagonistic moral and philosophical convictions that are deeply corrosive of unity.\u00a0 I have, however, seen friendships and family relationships that persevere despite such divisions.\u00a0 Those are worth striving for.\u00a0 And there are still pro-life liberals and pro-common good conservatives.<\/p>\n

Thompson\u2019s post made me curious about what happened to Simon (did he remain a Zealot?) and Matthew (did he get disillusioned with Roman government?).<\/p>\n

According to Simon\u2019s Wikipedia entry<\/a> there is no real consensus about him, including whether he may have gone by different names and what \u201czealot\u201d meant.\u00a0 Of the many different traditions about him, some say he became the Bishop of Jerusalem (which would be fitting for his Jewish nationalism), while others say he proclaimed the Gospel in Egypt, Persia, Armenia, Lebanon, and Georgia.\u00a0 \u00a0Most agree that he was finally martyred by the Romans (which he might have expected).\u00a0 Most traditions say that he was crucified, though some say he was sawn in half, so that Christian art generally depicts him holding a saw.<\/p>\n

As for Matthew, his Wikipedia entry<\/a> focuses mainly on his authoring the Gospel that carries his name, something very well-attested, going back to the first century.\u00a0 According to tradition, Matthew played an important role in evangelizing Ethiopia, where he was martyred by a king whom he rebuked for lusting after a young Christian woman.\u00a0 (He must have learned not to be as deferential to official authority as he used to be.)<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the streaming series The Chosen<\/em> depicts Matthew as being on the autism spectrum.\u00a0 According to director Dallas Jenkins<\/a>, \u201cI saw three things that stood out. One, he was a numbers guy, obviously, as a tax collector. Two, he was a facts guy; his whole first chapter is a genealogy in three equal sections of 14 names. Finally, he chose a profession that made him a social outcast.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how historically valid that is, but this has made Matthew a favorite saint among autistic children.<\/p>\n

As for diversity, yet unity, in the church, this is a clear teaching in the New Testament.\u00a0 Unlike other world religions\u2013like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism<\/a>, and animism\u2013which come with a culture, Christianity is not a cultural religion.\u00a0 Rather, it is for \u201cevery nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages\u201d:<\/p>\n

And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?<\/span> Parthians and\u00a0Medes and\u00a0Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,<\/span> Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,<\/span> both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians\u2014we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.\u201d (Acts 2:8-11)<\/span><\/p>\n

After this I looked, and behold,\u00a0a great multitude that no one could number,\u00a0from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb,\u00a0clothed in white robes, with\u00a0palm branches in their hands,<\/span> and crying out with a loud voice,\u00a0\u201cSalvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!\u201d<\/span> (Revelation 7:9-10)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Baptism creates a new identity, one that transcends race, nationality, gender, and socio-economic status:<\/p>\n

For as many of you as\u00a0were baptized\u00a0into Christ have\u00a0put on Christ.<\/span> There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,\u00a0there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.<\/span>\u00a0 (Galatians 3:27-28)<\/p>\n

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite this unity in Christ, the Word of God praises the differences and the extreme individuality of those who make up the church, which is nothing less than the Body of Christ:<\/p>\n

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.<\/span> For\u00a0in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body\u2014Jews or Greeks, slaves or free\u2014and\u00a0all were made to drink of one Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the body does not consist of one member but of many.<\/span> \u00a0If the foot should say, \u201cBecause I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,\u201d that would not make it any less a part of the body.<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>And if the ear should say, \u201cBecause I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,\u201d that would not make it any less a part of the body.<\/span>\u00a0If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>But as it is,\u00a0God arranged the members in the body, each one of them,\u00a0as he chose.<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>If all were a single member, where would the body be?<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. (1 Corinthians 12: 12-20)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such a variety of Christians is a reality in individual congregations\u2013which do include different human beings despite any surface similarity\u2013but also in the \u201choly Christian church\u201d that extends through time and around the world.<\/p>\n

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Illustration:\u00a0 Simon the Zealot<\/a> by Carravagio, photo by Hakjosef \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=89475039<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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