Συμεών

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.

Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary:“Behold, this Child is appointed to causethe rise and fall of many in Israel,and to be a sign that will be spoken against,