'Sons' in the Bible

and James the [son] of Zebedee and John the brother of James (and he gave to them the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder"),

"Truly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme.

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him [and] said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you."