Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- 4 Teachings on family and single life
- 5 Women in the parables and judgment sayings
- 6 Stories of help and healing
- 7 Women in the ministry of Jesus
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
7 - Women in the ministry of Jesus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- 4 Teachings on family and single life
- 5 Women in the parables and judgment sayings
- 6 Stories of help and healing
- 7 Women in the ministry of Jesus
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
There were several distinct groups of women who interacted with Jesus during His ministry (we will exclude here the birth and Resurrection narratives). After a study of the mother of Jesus, we will investigate Jesus' relationship to Mary and Martha, and those women who traveled with Jesus and played a crucial role in the events surrounding His death. By examining the status and role of these women in Jesus' earthly ministry, we will perhaps discover the background for and explanation of the new roles women assumed in the primitive Christian community.
Mother Mary, Jesus' disciple
The credal phrase, “Born of the Virgin Mary,” rightly emphasizes that Mary's importance in the New Testament is due to her relationship to her Son. We must recognize that Mary is not mentioned in the Gospels as a result of any independent interest in her as a person, but because of the important role she played in Jesus' life.
The Wedding Feast at Cana – Jn 2.1 – 12
On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; (2) Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples. (3) When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” (4) And Jesus said to her, “O Woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” […]
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- Women and the Genesis of Christianity , pp. 88 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990