Sermons On 10 Who Jesus Touched
She was well named. For Salome was the familiar feminine form
of Solomon. But not only did she bear the wise monarch's name.
"The mother of Zebedee's children" was every whit as unique as
he. The very fact she identified herself with Jesus' little group
attested to that. For the two were family, and families often
have a way of underestimating their own. Nor were the Master's
kin beyond it. For at times Mary had doubts about her son despite
the revelations made to her at his birth, (Luke 2:48-51) while