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Zebedee

Mentioned in 11 verses across 4 books, first in Matthew 4:21. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In the Bible

The first 10 of 11 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Matthew

  • Matthew 4:21

    Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Jesus called them,

  • Matthew 10:2

    These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

  • Matthew 20:20

    Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and knelt down to make a request of Him.

  • Matthew 26:37

    He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

  • Matthew 27:56

    Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

Mark

  • Mark 1:19

    Going on a little farther, He saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat, mending their nets.

  • Mark 1:20

    Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.

  • Mark 3:17

    James son of Zebedee and his brother John (whom He named Boanerges, meaning “Sons of Thunder”),

  • Mark 10:35

    Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and declared, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask.”

Luke

  • Luke 5:10

    and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”

Events

Events the dataset lists Zebedee as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. AD 27

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

A Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q.v.), and the father of James and John, two of our Lord’s disciples (Matt. 4:21; 27:56; Mark 15:40). He seems to have been a man of some position in Capernaum, for he had two boats (Luke 5:4) and “hired servants” (Mark 1:20) of his own. No mention is made of him after the call of his two sons by Jesus.

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