James' personality and character was high-minded
and ambitious, sometimes haughty, strong and
energetic, and influential.

"There were...James the son of Zebedee, and John
the brother of James that is, Sons of Thunder."
James and John had such thundering and stormy
natures and reckless manners, that Jesus
deliberately added this surname, which could have
been partly praise.

“'You do not know of what manner of spirit you are;
for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's
lives, but to save them.'" Reading some of their
encounters with the people Jesus was ministering
to-what a fitting name for these two brothers!