Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
Salome, the myrrh bearing.
Salome loved Jesus as much as her own two sons, James and John, who left their Zebedee father and fishing nets to follow Him.
She smiled when heard Jesus nicknamend them "the Sons of Thunder" and invited them into His inner circle, along with Simon Peter.
She heard how Jesus led the three up a high Tabor mountain. When they came down, her garrulous sons could hardly speak. But then the story came out.
She left behind ther comfortable home on the northwest shore of Galilee to join her sons and, kneeling before Jesus, asked for her sons to sit at His right and left in His kingdom. Soon, the man she had approached on her knee as a would-be king would himself die on a cross, and she would be one of the women who witnesses his death.
After it was over, Salome may have remembered the anguished faces of the men crucified with Jesus, one on His right hand and the other on His left - an ironic reminder of the request on the way to Jerusalim.
Along with other faithful women at the cross, Salome was present on the morning of Resurrection.
The angel's words "He has risen! He is not here!" would have comforted her later in life, when her son James became the first martyred apostle, dying at the hands of Herod Agripa. (Anne Spangler, Women of the Bible).