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Saint Jude the Apostle
Also called Thaddeus; not Judas Iscariot
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Life and witness
Luke 6:16 and Acts 1:13 name Jude with a reference to James, while Matthew 10:3 and Mark 3:18 name Thaddeus. The Church’s received list identifies these names with the same apostle. John 14:22 explicitly distinguishes the disciple who questions Jesus from Judas Iscariot.
Historical setting
Luke 6:16 and Acts 1:13 name Jude with a reference to James, while Matthew 10:3 and Mark 3:18 name Thaddeus. The Church’s received list identifies these names with the same apostle. John 14:22 explicitly distinguishes the disciple who questions Jesus from Judas Iscariot.
Legacy and remembrance
The Epistle of Jude is received under Jude’s name; its opening identifies its author as the brother of James. Questions of family identification should not be simplified into an invented genealogy. Jude of the Twelve is also distinct from Thaddeus of the Seventy. His selected fixed feast is June 19.
More about the life
The individual church Life remembers Jude preaching in the Near East and emphasizes the short epistle’s call to faith expressed through action. Its accounts of family relationships and journeys are received traditions, not a complete biography supplied by the letter itself. The epistle addresses the community’s need to remain faithful amid misleading teaching, while its author identifies himself as a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James. That modest self-description should not be expanded into a certain reconstruction of every family relationship or missionary journey.
Quotes
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Scripture · King James Version
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Canonical Scripture · Jude 1:24-25 (the closing doxology)
Context and edition
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King James Version (1611), historical English edition.
King James Version (1611); not a new website-authored English translation.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Readings
Selected reading
Jude 1:1-3 (the opening of the epistle)
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
English: cited historical translation. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian: LogosPharos translations through English, not direct translations from ancient Greek.
Editorial context
Jude opens his short epistle by addressing the sanctified and urging the readers to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. The epistle is received in the Church as the writing of the apostle Judas.
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Source text and edition
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
King James Version, the English translation cited here. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian below are relay translations through this English text, not direct translations from the Greek.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude%201&version=KJV
Words recorded in the sources
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Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Jude 1:24-25 (the closing doxology)
English: cited historical translation. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian: LogosPharos translations through English, not direct translations from ancient Greek.
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Source text and edition
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
King James Version, the English translation cited here. Modern Greek, Russian and Macedonian below are relay translations through this English text, not direct translations from the Greek.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude%201&version=KJV
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Writings and works
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These books are received under the named apostle in Orthodox Church tradition. This records ecclesial attribution, not a claim to settle every historical authorship question.
Epistle of Jude
Canonical Scripture
Attribution source: Azbyka Vera Orthodox library
Church life and commemoration
Work about the saint
Attribution source: Eastern Orthodox Church account
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Miracles and testimony
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Scriptural account
Acts 5:12–16
Acts reports signs and healings through the apostles collectively. This passage does not identify which individual apostle performed each event; it is not evidence for a separate personal miracle attributed to this apostle.
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Church sources
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/30/101711-synaxis-of-the-holy-glorious-and-all-praised-twelve-apostles
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/19/101752-apostle-jude-the-brother-of-the-lord