People of the Bible
Zebedee
Family
- Children
- James (Son of Zebedee), John the Apostle
In the story
- Fishers of Men · 27 AD
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 11 verses
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.