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Zebedee (/ ˈ z ɛ b ɪ d iː / ZEB-id-ee; Ancient Greek: Ζεβεδαῖος, romanized: Zebedaîos; [1] Hebrew romanized: Zəḇaḏyâ), according to all four Canonical Gospels, was the father of James and John, two apostles of Jesus.
The classic Spanish translation of the Bible is that of Casiodoro de Reina, revised by Cipriano de Valera. It was for the use of the incipient Protestant movement and is widely regarded as the Spanish equivalent of the King James Version. Bible's title-page traced to the Bavarian printer Mattias Apiarius, "the bee-keeper".
[22] [23] Also according to some traditions, Salome was the sister of Mary, Jesus' mother, [23] [24] making Salome Jesus' aunt, and her sons John the Apostle and James were Jesus' cousins. [25] John the Apostle is traditionally believed to be one of two disciples (the other being Andrew) recounted in John 1:35–39, who upon hearing the Baptist ...
(This is the village that Jesus grew up in. Although Bethlehem is the biblical birthplace of Jesus, some scholars believe that Jesus was born in Nazareth.) Village 2200 BC: Aramaic: נצרת Pronunciation: Naw-saw-reth Nebuchadnezzar II (son of Nabopolassar) (King of Babylonia) Person 642 BC: 562 BC: Akkadian: Pronunciation: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur
Although neither Hebrew nor Aramaic had a word for "cousin", both customarily spoke of a cousin as a "son of an uncle" (Heb. ben dod; Aram. bar dad) [8] and the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, never translates either expression as "brother" or "sister". [8]
Nicolas Poussin's Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640) Christian tradition has considered the Book of Revelation's writer to be the same person as John the Apostle. A minority of ancient clerics and scholars, such as Eusebius (d. 339/340), recognize at least one further John as a companion of Jesus, John the Presbyter. Some Christian ...
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If he is an apostle, he must be the son of Alphæus and a believer in Jesus, ‘For neither did his brethren believe in him.’ The only conclusion is that the Mary who is described as the mother of James the Less was the wife of Alphæus and sister of Mary the Lord's mother, the one who is called by John the Evangelist ' Mary of Clopas '.