In the News ... "The Apostle James a flawed but fearless man"

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• First apostle to be martyred was brother of the Apostle John

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - Like most of the disciples, James, brother of John and one of the sons of the fisherman Zebedee, was an assertive man who was at times irascible.

Often referred to as “James the Greater,” indicating that he was older or taller than the disciple called “James the Lesser,” he was in Jesus’s inner circle with Peter and John and was privileged to see Jesus’s transfiguration with Moses and Elijah on top of a mountain, possibly Mount Tabor.

Clergymen Aubrey Jones, Gian Carlo Villatoro and Doug Doyle say Jesus called James and John “Boanerges,” or “sons of thunder,” because they wanted to call down fire from Heaven to incinerate a village of hostile Samaritans ...

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