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The Many Female Followers of Jesus

July 10, 2014 by Margaret Mowczko

The Many Female Followers of Jesus

I read Matthew 27:55-56 recently and saw something I had not noticed before. There were many female followers at Jesus’ crucifixion – many. I had previously imagined that only a few women had accompanied Jesus and made the trip all the way from Galilee to Jerusalem – usually a journey of several days.

These women had travelled to be with Jesus and to minister to him by taking care of his needs. From this group of many, Matthew identified just three of the women: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the unnamed mother of the sons of Zebedee. Mark, in his parallel account, also lists just three women: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and Salome[1], but he adds that many other women from Galilee were near the cross with them (Mark 15:40-41 cf Mark 16:1).

Filed Under: bible teaching resource, General, Jesus and women, women in the bible, women in the New Testament Tagged With: Bethany, female followers, Joanna, Luke, Mary, Mary and Martha, Mary Magdalene, Matthew 27, Salome, Susanna

Were the Disciples Unschooled? Ordinary? Men?

September 25, 2013 by Gail Wallace

Were the Disciples Unschooled? Ordinary? Men?

Recently, I heard it said in a sermon that the early church was led by “unschooled, ordinary men”. This idea that Jesus chose poor, uneducated fishermen as his disciples is entrenched in evangelistic teaching, and was something I heard often growing up in the church. But is it really true?

Filed Under: church history Tagged With: Andrew, Chloe, disciples, fishermen, James, Joanna, John, Joseph of Arimathea, Junia, Luke, Lydia, Martha, Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Matthew, Nympha, ordinary, Peter, Phoebe, Priscilla, Susanna, unschooled

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