Edited sentence: According to the social rank of their parents, they might have been men of ordinary education, in the common walks of Jewish life.Both sons of Zebedee, James and John, were Jesus's brothers in faith.It is easy to slip into the impression that  James the Greater, son of Zebedee, brother in blood to John, was the same man as James the Lesser, the Apostle.It is probable that James' brother, John, had not received the technical training of the rabbinical schools.This illusion is an accidental result of plucking lines, out of context, from different scriptural writings, then following one rapidly after another, as seen below:.This meant being unlearned, without any official position among the Jews.To assume they were also blood brothers to Jesus involves thinking things not stated in the scriptural writings, for example, that Zebedee and Salome were the same as Joseph and Mary, the two named present at the birth of Jesus