List of major biblical figures
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Prophets
Kings
Priests
According to the Book of Genesis, the Israelites were descendants of the sons of Jacob, who was renamed Israel after wrestling with an angel. His twelve male children become the ancestors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Maccabees
- Eleazar Avaran
- John Gaddi
- John Hyrcanus
- Jonathan Apphus
- Judas Maccabeus
- Mattathias
- Simon Thassi
Greek rulers
- Alexander the Great
- Antiochus III the Great
- Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- Philip II of Macedon
Persian rulers
- Astyages
- Darius III
Others
- Baruch
- Tobit
- Judith
- Susanna
New Testament
Jesus and his relatives
The Twelve:
Others:
- Paul
- Matthias
- Barnabas
- James, the Lord's Brother
- Jude, the Lord's Brother
Priests
- Caiaphas, high priest
- Annas, first high priest of Roman Judea
- Zechariah, father of John the Baptist
Prophets
- Agabus
- Anna
- Simeon
- John the Baptist
Other believers
- Apollos
- Aquila
- Dionysius the Areopagite
- Epaphras, fellow prisoner of Paul, fellow worker
- John Mark
- Joseph of Arimathea
- Lazarus
- Luke
- Mark
- Martha
- Mary Magdalene
- Mary, sister of Martha
- Nicodemus
- Onesimus
- Philemon
- Priscilla
- Silas
- Sopater
- Stephen, first martyr
- Timothy
- Titus
Secular rulers
- Agrippa I, called "King Herod" or "Herod" in Acts 12
- Felix governor of Judea who was present at the trial of Paul, and his wife Drusilla in Acts 24:24
- Herod Agrippa II, king over several territories, before whom Paul made his defense in Acts 26.
- Herod Antipas, called "Herod the Tetrarch" or "Herod" in the Gospels and in Acts 4:27
- Herodias
- Herod the Great
- Philip the Tetrarch
- Pontius Pilate
- Salome, the daughter of Herodias
- Quirinius
Roman Emperors
- Augustus
- Tiberius
- Nero
