Theophylact of Ohrid

Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. "Mary the mother of James and Joses" means the Theotokos, the Virgin Mother of God, for James and Joses were the sons of Joseph by his first wife. And since the Theotokos was called the "wife" of Joseph, she is rightly called the "mother" of his children, meaning "stepmother." The mother of the sons of Zebedee was named Salome. They say that she also was a daughter of Joseph.

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Jerome

'See,' says Helvidius, 'Jacob and Joseph are the sons of Mary the Lord's mother, whom the Jews call the brethren of Christ. (Mark 6:3.) He is also called James the less, to distinguish him from James the greater, who was the son of Zebedee.' And he urges that 'it were impious to suppose that His mother Mary would be absent, when the other women were there; or that we should have to invent some other third unknown person of the name of Mary, and that too when John's Gospel witnesses that His mother was present.' O blind …

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Thomas Aquinas

"Among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee." From this statement Helvidius took occasion for his error, who said that Jesus was born from the seed of Joseph. To this Jerome says that there were two Jameses: the greater, who is called the brother of John, and the lesser, who was the son of Alphaeus, whose mother was also the mother of Joseph. …

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