Mark 3:17
Good News Translation
James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee (Jesus gave them the name Boanerges, which means "Men of Thunder");

New Revised Standard Version
James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);

Contemporary English Version
There were also James and John, the two sons of Zebedee. Jesus called them Boanerges, which means "Thunderbolts."

New American Bible
James, son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.

James.

Mark 1:19,20 And going on from thence a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who also were mending their nets in the ship: . . .

Mark 5:37 And he admitted not any man to follow him, but Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.

Mark 9:2 And after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves, and was transfigured before them.

Mark 10:35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying: Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us.

Mark 14:33 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy.

John 21:2,20-25 There were together: Simon Peter and Thomas, who is called Didymus, and Nathanael, who was of Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee and two others of his disciples. . . .

Acts 12:1 And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to afflict some of the church.

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Isaiah 58:1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 23:29 Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Revelation 10:11 And he said to me: Thou must prophesy again to many nations and peoples and tongues and kings.

Context
The Twelve Apostles
16And to Simon he gave the name Peter: 17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder. 18And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus and Simon the Cananean:…
Cross References
Matthew 4:21
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them.

Mark 3:16
And to Simon he gave the name Peter:

Mark 3:18
And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus and Simon the Cananean:

Luke 9:54
And when his disciples, James and John, had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?

Mark 3:16
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