Who was Salome?
“The wife of Zebedee, as appears from comparing Matt. xxvii, 56, with Mark xv, 40.” — Smith’s Bible Dictionary. Matthew says that the women who witnessed the crucifixion were “Mary Magdalene, and Mary the Mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.” Mark says the women were “Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome.” This is a discrepancy that can be reconciled only by supposing that the mother of Zebedee’s children (James and John) was Salome. But the Gospel of the Egyptians, older than either Matthew or Mark, and accepted by early Christians as authentic, states that Salome was a single woman.
