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
6 - Stories of help and healing
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
Considerable space is devoted in the Gospels to Jesus' interactions with women from all walks of life. In some instances, a healing of a woman is involved, in others, Jesus helps certain women by revealing their sins, forgiving their sins, or healing their relatives. After a review of seven passages dealing with specific women in the Gospels, we can evaluate Jesus' attitude toward women as reflected in His actions.
The Lucan anointing – Lk. 7.36 – 50
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house, and took his place at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “What is it, Teacher?” “A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. […]
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- Women and the Genesis of Christianity , pp. 65 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990