JAMES

Son of Alphaeus

Mark 16:1
 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body.
NIV

Matt 27:55-56
Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons. 
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REFERENCES

James the Less (another of the twelve apostles.) He was the son of Alphaeus (Matt 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13) and Mary, the sister of our Lord's mother (Matt 27:56; Mark 15:40; Luke 24:10; John 19:25), and was called James the Less (ho mikros, "the little"), either because he was younger than James the son of Zebedee or on account of his short stature (Mark 15:40; see marg.). His mother is supposed by some to have been called sister, i.e., sister-in-law, of Mary the mother of Jesus, because of their marriage to two brothers, Clopas and Joseph (see John 19:25; Clopas, or Cleopas, KJV, is believed by scholars to be the same person as Alphaeus). It has also been supposed that Alphaeus died without offspring and that his wife was espoused by Joseph, on which account James is perhaps the legal son of Alphaeus and the reputed half brother of our Lord. James had a brother, Joses or Joseph (Matt 27:56). In KJV Luke 6:16 mentions "Judas the brother of James," whereas NASB and NIV render "the son of James."
(from The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988.)
 

HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS

James is reported to have been clubbed and stoned to death in Jerusalem.

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