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Hebrew/Greek. Your Content. Matthew 20:20-28. New Life Version. The Mother of James and John Asks Jesus Something Hard. 20 The mother of Zebedee’s children (James and John) came to Jesus with her sons. She got down on her knees before Jesus to ask something of Him. 21 He said to her, “What do you want?”. She said, “Say that my two sons ...
Supporting this possibility is that, in both passages, Jesus holds the sons responsible for the request, not their mother. Matthew introduced James and John as the sons of Zebedee the fisherman in Matthew 4:21–22. Jesus later gave the pair the name "Boanerges," which means "sons of thunder."
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. There are two women named Salome in the Bible, but only one is mentioned by that name. One Salome was righteous; the other unrighteous. The righteous Salome was the wife of Zebedee (Matthew 27:56), the mother of the disciples James and John, and a female follower of Jesus.
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Some scholars speculate that this woman may have been Salome (Matthew 27:56; John 19:25), possibly Jesus' aunt—His mother Mary's sister—and that James and John were his cousins. That may be why she felt bold enough to ask such a thing.
Matthew 20:20-23. Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children — Instigated, it seems, by them. See Mark 10:35. With her sons — James and John; worshipping him — That is, falling down before him; and desiring a certain thing of him, &c. — Considering what he had just been speaking, was ever any thing more unseasonable?
The mother of James and John was named Salome (Matthew 27:56 compared with Mark 15:40; Mark 16:1); she had left her husband Zebedee in Galilee (unless, as is more probable from the terms in which she is introduced, he was now dead), and followed Jesus in the band of holy women who attended on him and ministered to him of their substance.
Jesus entrusts John with the care of his mother (John 19:26-27). Historians believe that Mary eventually died in Ephesus under the direct care of John. When informed of the apparent resurrection of Jesus by Mary Magdalene, John and Peter ran to the tomb. John outran Peter but did not go in until after Peter arrived.
