Theudas
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Theudas was a Jewish rebel leader who was killed, and his followers scattered, by the Roman authorities.
Theudas was a Jewish insurgent leader mentioned by the Pharisee Gamaliel in his speech before the Sanhedrin, who cited him as an example of a messianic pretender whose movement collapsed after his death (Acts 5:36). Gamaliel used the cases of Theudas and Judas the Galilean to argue that the apostles' movement should be left to determine itself by its own merits. The identification of this Theudas with the rebel leader mentioned by Josephus (Antiquities 20.5.1) is debated, owing to apparent chronological difficulties.