'Discover Jesus' \ Object \Home of Zebedee
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Zebedee vacated his home to provide Jesus and the apostles a headquarters for their ministry, where they taught, planned, and regrouped. Significant events, including healings and disruptions due to threats of arrest, occurred at this central location.
Zebedee moved out of his house to allow Jesus a place to do the work of the kingdom. This became the headquarters of Jesus, the apostles, and David Zebedee. This is where they would meet, teach, plan, and return when away. The extraordinary event of the healing at sundown occurred in the front yard of the Zebedee home. Also, when threatened with arrest, a goodbye speech to his disciples and planned get-together with his family were interrupted at Zebedee’s house.
The Zebedees lived in Bethsaida, down the shore of the Sea of Galilee and near the city’s fishing headquarters. He was a sound and successful businessman, wisely making investments with people of integrity, and divested into several enterprises: property, fishing, fish drying, and designing and building boats. He owned several boat-building shops that were on the lake to the south of Capernaum which produced vessels of superior quality and in demand. He would probably be considered upper-middle class today.
Zebedee and his wife Salome raised three boys and four girls in their spacious residence, including a garden and extensive land. It allowed for large gatherings and private meetings.
From May 3 to October 3, 28 CE, Jesus and the apostolic party trained evangelists at Bethsaida, as they lived in Zebedee’s house and set up a tented city by the nearby seaside. There numbered from five hundred to fifteen hundred visitors at any one time, and several thousand came and went to this encampment. A separate area of tents served as a hospital. Each morning, the apostles taught the evangelists. During the afternoons, both teachers and pupils taught those who gathered, and after the evening meal, the apostles conducted an open question session for the benefit of the evangelists. Jesus would hold private discussions with individuals who desired to talk with him, choosing a secluded corner of the Zebedee garden.
At the end of the second preaching tour, everyone met at the Zebedee house, which included 117 evangelists. During a two-week recess, Jesus, along with Andrew, Peter, James, and John, remained at the home planning and discussing the welfare and extension of the kingdom. Everyone also gathered at the Zebedee house to commence the third preaching tour.
After the crisis at Capernaum, Jesus met with his loyal followers for a week at the house of Zebedee, speaking only with his brave and trusted disciples who numbered about one hundred.
The resurrected Jesus instructed the apostles to go to Galilee in his eleventh appearance. They went and waited at the Zebedee house, then decided to go fishing. In the morning, they saw Jesus on the shore, his thirteenth appearance. Each day, more and more people knocked on the front door of the Zebedee house to inquire if Jesus rising from the dead was true.