살로메 는
Zebedee 의 아들들(
야고보 와
요한 )의 어머니, 즉 세베대의 부인으로 추정되는 인물이다.
성경에 보면 야고보와 요한의 어머니가 예수님께 나아와 나중에 큰 자리가 될 것을 간청하는 내용이 나오는데,
20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
21 He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
22 But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
23 He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
이후 예수님이 십자가에 달리시는 기록을 보면, 세베대의 아들들의 어머니가 살로메인 것으로 추정된다.
55 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee , serving him.
56 Among them were Mary Magdalene , Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee .
40 There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene , and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses , and Salome ;
41 who, when he was in Galilee , followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem .
요한복음의 기록을 보면 예수님의 육신의 어머니 마리아의 자매일 수도 있다.
But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene .