- verses
- 11
- first named
- Matthew 4:21
- last named
- John 21:2
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Zebedee?
Zebedee was a fisherman from Galilee and the father of two of Jesus' disciples, James and John. He worked alongside his sons in the fishing business and was present when Jesus called them to follow Him. His wife was Salome, according to hints at Matt 27.56 with Mrk.15.40. Zebedee's wife, the mother of James and John, is mentioned as one of the women who followed Jesus and supported His ministry. She also made a bold request for her sons to sit at Jesus' right and left hand in His kingdom, revealing her high aspirations for them. Zebedee is not mentioned as a follower of Jesus himself, but he did not hinder his sons from leaving their fishing trade to become disciples. The fact that Zebedee had hired servants suggests that he ran a successful fishing operation. His sons, James and John, along with Peter, formed Jesus' inner circle of disciples and were present at significant events such as the Transfiguration and Jesus' prayers in Gethsemane.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Father of
- JamesregistryMatthew 4:21Mark 1:20Matthew 10:2 +4
- JohnregistryMatthew 4:21Mark 1:20Mark 10:35 +1
Parent of
Partner of
- Salomeregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
Stands in the same events as
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Zebedee is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
11 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Matthew (5), Mark (4), Luke (1) and John (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 4 books. The name is written 12 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Matthew 4Zebedee is in the boat with James and John while they mend their nets.
- Matthew 20Zebedee was named as the father of the two brothers whose mother sought them seats in the kingdom.
- Mark 1Zebedee remained in the boat with the hired men when James and John followed Jesus.
- Mark 10Zebedee is named as the father of James and John.
- John 21The sons of Zebedee were among the disciples together by the Sea of Tiberias.
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