Today's story is about simon the zealot sell it who's a zealot
let's listen to the story and find out the zealots were one of the little-known followers of jesus
who were also known as the canaanites or zelots the zeloths also lived in galilee and simon the
zealot was one of them the zealots were fanatical jewish nationalists who completely disregarded
the suffering and struggle involved for what they regarded as the purity of their faith the zealots
had immense hatred for the romans and it was this hate that destroyed the city of jerusalem
josephus records that the zealots were reckless people and were zealous in good practices
not much personal information is known about simon the zealot but from the background of the
zealots one can understand that he was a fanatical nationalist he had immense devotion to the law and
bitter hatred for people who dared to compromise with rome yet simon emerged as a man of faith
he gave up all his hatred for the faith he had in his master and the love he was willing to share
with the fellow disciples and especially matthew the roman tax collector
there was a time when simon the zealot would have killed anyone in loyalty to israel he became a man
who understood that god will accept no forced service simon the zealot two died as a martyr and
his apostolic symbol is a fish lying on a bible which indicates that he was a fisherman who later
became a fisher of men through preaching that was an interesting story indeed i'm glad you liked it
the holy tales
today i'm going to tell you the story about jesus's last and final disciple thomas didimus
it's thomas deadmaus tubby thomas didimus was one of the lesser-known disciples of jesus
he lived in galilee and went to preach jesus's words in martha persia and india and probably
received death as a martyr near madras at mount saint thomas in india thomas was his hebrew name
and didymus his greek name at times he was also called judas the bible does not tell us much
about thomas except his name however john in his gospel defines him more clearly as being present
in the raising of lazarus in the upper room he wanted to see nail prints in jesus's hand and
also the spears car in his side to believe in him soon he was known as the doubting thomas thomas
had a bewildered and confused mind and yet he was brave and courageous since he was a pessimistic
man he believed only in things which he could see however he had immense faith and was a devoted man
when jesus rose from death he came and invited thomas to put his finger in the nail prince
in his hand and in his side it is here we see thomas making the greatest confession of faith
and thomas's doubts transformed into faith in india thomas was commissioned to build a palace
for the king of india where he was martyred to death with a spear for his lord his apostolic sign
is a bunch of spears stones and arrows so did you like the story oh yes it was wonderful we
loved it the holy tales so today's parable is the pharisee and the tax collector who is a pharisee
holy a pharisee is a teacher of scriptures and a person who knows a lot about god oh i see
long long time ago one day two men went to the temple to pray one was a pharisee and one was
a tax collector the two men sat down on their knees and prayed to god while praying all that
the pharisee could think about was how good he was and how much better he was than any other person
he prayed to god and said god i thank you that i am not bad like all the other people
i am glad that i am not bad like the robbers and the cheaters i am so glad that i am not a
bad person like the tax collector over there the pharisee continued praying
lord i'm so good and generous i give lots of money to people in need and i pray a lot
when god heard his prayers he was very angry with the pharisee the pharisee was not at
all humble while praying he had too much pride in himself and so he put himself above everyone else
then the tax collector began praying to god as we know tax collectors were considered to be bad
people who would cheat others for money but this tax collector was not one of those bad people he
wanted to pray from his heart and had a lot of faith in god he prayed to god from a distance
inside the temple god you are so good please forgive me for all the wrong that i have done
please help me to be a better person every day
unlike the pharisee the tax collector was humble at his praying god was very happy with him the
tax collector did not even think for once how good he was instead he thought how good god was
so through this parable what jesus wanted to explain to people was to be humble before god
and god would make them great wow that was such a nice story thank you for the story holy i loved
it i am glad you did freckles hope you enjoyed the story as much as we did come back soon we'll
be back with a new parable keep watching until next time to watch more videos please subscribe
plants and trees on the fourth day god created the sun to shine in the day the moon and stars
to come out at night one day moses went to mount horeb with his sheep there god appeared to him
as a flame of fire in a bush since there was no room anywhere else they decided to spend the night
in a stable here mary had her baby jesus she wrapped him in a blanket and put him to sleep
the whole world in his house