the wife of Zebedee, and mother of St. James the greater, and
St. John the evangelist, Matthew xxvii, 56; and one of those holy women
who used to attend upon our Saviour in his journeyings, and to minister
to him. She was the person who requested of Jesus Christ, that her two
sons, James and John, might sit on his right and left hand when he
should enter upon his kingdom, having then but the same obscure views as
the rest of the disciples; but she gave proof of her faith when she
followed Christ to Calvary, and did not forsake him even at the cross,
Mark xv, 40; Matt. xxvii, 55, 56. She was also one of the women that
brought perfumes to embalm him, and who came, for this purpose, to the
sepulchre “early in the morning,” Mark xvi, 1, 2. At the tomb they saw
two angels, who informed them that Jesus was risen. Returning to
Jerusalem, Jesus appeared to them on the way, and said to them, “Be not
afraid: go, tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall
they see me.”
St. John the evangelist, Matthew xxvii, 56; and one of those holy women
who used to attend upon our Saviour in his journeyings, and to minister
to him. She was the person who requested of Jesus Christ, that her two
sons, James and John, might sit on his right and left hand when he
should enter upon his kingdom, having then but the same obscure views as
the rest of the disciples; but she gave proof of her faith when she
followed Christ to Calvary, and did not forsake him even at the cross,
Mark xv, 40; Matt. xxvii, 55, 56. She was also one of the women that
brought perfumes to embalm him, and who came, for this purpose, to the
sepulchre “early in the morning,” Mark xvi, 1, 2. At the tomb they saw
two angels, who informed them that Jesus was risen. Returning to
Jerusalem, Jesus appeared to them on the way, and said to them, “Be not
afraid: go, tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall
they see me.”