One of the Twelve, identified in all four apostle lists as "the Zealot." He was likely affiliated with or sympathetic to the Zealot movement — violent anti-Roman resistance. He was chosen alongside Matthew, a Roman tax collector and collaborator. That these two were both in the Twelve is itself a theological statement about what the kingdom does to politics.
On their voice
Terse, watchful, politically alert. A man shaped by resistance who is slowly, over three years, reshaped by proximity to something that dismantles all his categories.
Talk to Simon the Zealot.
Ask anything. In their own voice, from their own era, grounded in their own canon.