People of the Bible

James (Son of Zebedee)

Family

Died: Judea

In the story

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

Fishers of Men · 27 AD
Apostles Chosen · 28 AD
The Transfiguration · 29 AD
Olivet Discourse · 30 AD
Herod kills James · 40 AD

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The son of Zebedee and Salome; an elder brother of John the apostle. He was one of the twelve. He was by trade a fisherman, in partnership with Peter (Matt. 20:20; 27:56). With John and Peter he was present at the transfiguration (Matt. 17:1; Mark 9:2), at the raising of Jairus’s daughter (Mark 5:37-43), and in the garden with our Lord (14:33). Because, probably, of their boldness and energy, he and John were called Boanerges, i.e., “sons of thunder.” He was the first martyr among the apostles, having been beheaded by King Herod Agrippa (Acts 12:1, 2), A.D. 44. (Comp. Matt. 4:21; 20:20-23).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 18 verses

Matthew: 4:21, 10:2, 17:1
Mark: 1:19, 1:29, 3:17, 5:37, 9:2, 10:35, 10:41, 13:3, 14:33
Luke: 5:10, 6:14, 8:51, 9:28, 9:54
Acts: 12:2

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.