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Simon

Mentioned in AD 33 traditional (Jones)

A leper of Bethany, in whose house Mary anointed our Lord’s head with ointment “as he sat at meat” (Matt. 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

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2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Simon: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Simon, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Bethany2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, AD 8–58, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Simon’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Simon in 2 tagged verses across 2 books.

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  1. Matthew1
  2. Mark1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBSimon 75
KJVSimon 76
ASVSimon 76

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Matthew1 verse
  1. 26:6

    While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper,

Mark1 verse
  1. 14:3

    While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

A leper of Bethany, in whose house Mary anointed our Lord’s head with ointment “as he sat at meat” (Matt. 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9).