Who was Zebedee?

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).

Zebedee first appears in Matthew 4:21. In this repository’s biblical text, this figure is associated with 9 verse mentions across 4 books, most notably Mark, Matthew, Luke, John.