'Sons' in the Bible

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons. She bowed down in front of him to ask him for a favor.

He asked her, "What do you want?" She told him, "Promise that in your kingdom these two sons of mine will sit on your right and on your left."

"But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, "Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

Taking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, he began to be grieved and troubled.

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

Zebedee's sons James and his brother John (whom he named Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder),

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, went to Jesus and told him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you."

and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons and Simon's partners.

Then Jesus said, "A man had two sons.

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathaniel from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two of his other disciples were together.

"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

Because of this, Moses fled and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian. There he had two sons.

Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.

I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters," declares the Lord Almighty.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons "and worshipped while leaning on the top of his staff."

You have forgotten the encouragement that is addressed to you as sons: "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline or give up when you are corrected by him.

What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?

Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God's sons.