“Accompanying Jesus were the Twelve and some women…” (Luke 8:2). 1 Cor 15:12-20: Luke 8:1-3. The New Testament accounts of the growth of the early church are part of an evolving tradition ...

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Just as Jesus is represented as consorting with sinners, so likewise women are part of his entourage. Some of the gospels are more eager to portray Jesus in this way than others.

In the first century, women were all but invisible. But when the disciples ran, it was the women who stayed while Jesus was assaulted, flayed and crowned with thorns.

After the death of Jesus, women continued to play prominent roles in the early movement. Some scholars have even suggested that the majority of Christians in the first century may have been women.

Jesus, as God, loved every animal as himself because God is love. “Jesus, as a man, had been taught where dogs — and sheep and fishes, and Canaanites, for that matter — showed up in the ...

Dandi Daley Mackall illuminates the lives of first-century women who accompanied Jesus all the way to the Cross in her new book.

In addition, there were the many women whom the Church calls “Equal to the Apostles,” such as Mary Magdalene, Nina Enlightener of Georgia, and Helen, Emperor Constantine’s mother.

As such, women and children were included as participants. So, there would have been nothing unusual about a woman sitting at the table with Jesus and his companions.

Today we hear the encounter (taken from John) of Jesus with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well. Jesus arrives in Sychar, about 40-45 miles north of Jerusalem, en route to Galilee.

While Latter-day Saint women are generally thrilled with the new sleeveless garments, some are sad. Why? Well, for starters, the change is coming too late.