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The Zealots were fanatical, militant Jews who opposed Roman rule in the first century AD.  Zealots used military force to fight against the pagan Romans and the Jews who complied with them.  According to Luke 6:15, the Disciple Simon was a member of the Zealots<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%206:15,%20Matthew%209:%209-13</ref>.

The Zealots were fanatical, militant Jews who opposed Roman rule in the first century AD.  Zealots used military force to fight against the pagan Romans and the Jews who complied with them.  According to Luke 6:15, the Disciple Simon was a member of the Zealots<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%206:15,%20Matthew%209:%209-13</ref>. The group's activities mostly ceased after the Romans captured the Jewish hill-top fortress Masada in 73 AD, after a two month siege.  All but seven of the over one thousand zealots killed one another rather than submit to the Romans.