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A Mother’s Request
Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
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“What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”
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The Parable of the Two Sons
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
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He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
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Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
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James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder”),
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The Request of James and John
Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”
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and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.”
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The Parable of the Lost Son
Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons.
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Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
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The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
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Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.
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“‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
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Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.
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When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.
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Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
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The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
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Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
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the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
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And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
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to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
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Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
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In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.
