True disciples of the Savior are humble, virtuous, courageous, and obedient. Like Mark and Luke, John paints Mary as a disciple progressing from the physical family of Jesus to His spiritual family. For example, in John 2, Mary is at the wedding feast in Cana.
Her concern for the shortfall of wine suggests that she was somehow associated with the hosts of the celebration. However, as this narrative illustrates, she had not yet developed a sensitivity for the timing of His mission. Her request of Him to intervene was not evil or forbidden after all, Jesus honored it , but it constituted a breach of timing, as His hour had not yet come see Joseph Smith Translation, John We are safe to conclude that watching her Son die was a soul-wrenching experience beyond description.
Undoubtedly, her immediate motherly instincts yearned to see Jesus employ His divine powers to save Himself and be united with her physical family once again. However, she had matured in her discipleship.
With John by her side, she suppressed her motherly desires, allowing them to be eclipsed by deeper spiritual desires see Mosiah At this moment, Jesus beheld His mother standing next to John.
Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! According to F. It is possible that Jesus was communicating to His mother that her faith and devotion as a disciple had progressed dramatically since the wedding at Cana. All people, old and young, bond and free, male and female, may progress in their discipleship to a point where they are ushered into the spiritual family of Christ. As it was with Mary the mother of Jesus, so it can be with us.
Therefore, we turn to Luke for introductory insights to Mary and her role in the ministry of the Savior. We have established the fact that Jesus was initiating a sociocultural reform in Jewish Palestine that brought previously unheard of freedom and mobility to some women of the day. From Luke we learn that Mary Magdalene, in company with a group of many women, embraced these freedoms and became an active disciple of Jesus, including traveling with Him during an extensive missionary tour of Galilee and later traveling with Him to Judea.
Women leaving behind family responsibilities would have been considered extremely a typical. Mary called Magdalene. Magdala meaning tower in Hebrew , usually identified as Tarichae meaning salted fish in Greek, was a town located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee about one mile north of Tiberias.
Salted fish were an important export in the Roman Empire, making Magdala a prosperous center of business. Since women of the day were usually known by a name that linked them to a man such as her husband, father, brother, or son such as Joanna listed above , it is possible that Mary Magdalene was unattached. If this is the case, her financial security could have resulted from inheriting property in the area or from the proceeds of a Magdala business enterprise. What moved Mary to be such a deeply devoted disciple of the Lord?
Again we turn to Luke, who informs us that Mary had received a blessing and had been healed from infirmities inflicted by seven devils that had possessed her see Luke Details surrounding this healing are sparse, but Elder Talmage states that the priesthood blessing that healed Mary of physical and mental maladies was bestowed by Jesus Himself.
She was likely in a state of great mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical instability, unable to function normally in society.
We are left to imagine the scene of her healing. Nevertheless, the scriptures capture a fairly uniform series of miraculous healings which we may draw upon as patterns.
Jeni and Richard Holzapfel suggest that Jesus likely approached the incapacitated Mary in gentleness and love, assessed her condition, and felt compassion. He probably reached out to her, touched her, and pronounced words of priesthood blessing upon her. Healed and whole, she looked upon the Savior, and He lifted her up from her torment-torn bed or station and introduced her 68 to those in His company.
Released from the pain of possession, her spirit soared, her charismatic personality was freed, her unflinching faith became unhindered, and her devotion was sealed. At some unrecorded time she was healed by Jesus from severe physical and mental maladies, and from her body the Master—of the seen and the unseen—cast out seven devils.
Hers was no ordinary illness, and we cannot do other than to suppose that she underwent some great spiritual test—a personal Gethsemane, a personal temptation in the wilderness for forty days, as it were—which she overcame and rose above—all preparatory to the great mission and work she was destined to perform. How often it is that the chosen and elect of God wrestle with physical, mental, and devilish infirmities as they cleanse and perfect their souls preparatory to the ministerial service they are called to render..
That Mary Magdalene passed whatever test a divine providence imposed upon her, we cannot doubt. And so we find her here, traveling with and ministering to the needs of the One who chose his intimates with perfect insight. Social, cultural, economic, spiritual, emotional, and even mental obstacles may be overcome through Christ. His invitation to join Him is a genuine outreach to all peoples of the earth. Finally, all four Evangelists indicate that Mary Magdalene was a crucial figure in events surrounding the Crucifixion, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord.
We believe that the most important role she played in the narrative of these events was that of special witness. The following chart is indicative of her part in these events and how her involvement builds in her personal and public witness of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. As we have indicated, Mary was likely the leader of this group. Matthew, Mark, and Luke each place Mary at the empty tomb where she is greeted by two angelic messengers.
In each case Luke excepted , Mary is commanded to go and find Peter and his remaining brethren of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and testify of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Once again, we learn from the Evangelists that the discipleship and testimony of faithful women matter deeply to God, who is not bound by the social and cultural norms established by mortals.
Mary found freedom in her discipleship—freedom to lead, to follow, and to offer credible testimony to men in the highest circles of leadership in the Church. Like Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene was a spiritual pioneer of her day.
This Mary comes from Bethany, a town located approximately one and a third miles east of Jerusalem. Mary was bold, fearless, and spiritually independent. Matthew and Mark do not mention Mary of Bethany in their testimonies. Luke and John, on the other hand, describe her as a faithful follower of Christ whose deep and endearing commitment to Him enable her to bravely shed traditional female roles of the day in favor of discipleship at the feet of the Master.
We will. This troubled Martha, who approached Jesus, asking that He intervene and encourage Mary to assist with the domestic duties of the home.
This scene is singular in a variety of ways, but our focus will rest upon Mary. The four Gospels make it clear that Jesus made Bethany His headquarters during the last week of His life. Six days before the Passover, John informs us that Jesus was back in the home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, partaking of a meal with these close friends see John There is one additional element of the story that is stunningly atypical.
The shock of her action likely resonated through the room and may have emboldened Judas Iscariot to rebuke Mary for her apparent excess see John —5. Therefore, it is possible on this occasion that Mary adopted the posture of a slave to manifest her absolute devotion to her Master and King. We see Jesus thus anointed and acclaimed, heading a triumphal procession into the Holy City. Luke and John allow us to view Mary of Bethany as a bold and noble disciple of Christ.
She would not allow her discipleship to be hindered by traditional views of womanhood. Our study will now turn to the remaining four women named Mary in the New Testament.
There is far less text involving these final Marys. However, sufficient detail exists to provide significant and helpful clues about the lives of these women. Even so, their biographical sketches will be significantly less detailed than those of the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Bethany.
As we discovered in our discussion of Mary Magdalene, a goodly number of women followed Jesus during His Galilean ministry and later witnessed His crucifixion. It is reasonable to conclude that she was a very close associate of Mary Magdalene. Like her, this Mary also enjoyed a great deal of freedom and financial independence when compared to most women of the day. Mark tells us that she gave her personal resources to support the travels and ministry of Jesus see Mark While this is possible, we have not drawn this conclusion for three basic reasons.
First, the text will not justify an absolute conclusion one way or the other in this case; second, Mary is a name used with such great frequency in first-century Jewish Palestine that it would be more reasonable to find more women, not fewer, with this name; and third, Matthew and Mark report that many women followed Jesus during His Galilean ministry and traveled with Him on His final journey to Judea see Matthew ; Mark Taking these facts together, we believe that in this instance, identifying Mary of James and Joses as Mary of Cleoph as is overly harmonistic.
With that said, we know that Mary the mother of James and Joses traveled extensively with Jesus, was taught by Him, and likely witnessed His miraculous power on multiple occasions. Mary the wife of Clopas The only thing we know is that she was at the cross John She was one of the few brave women who went with her Master to the place of most intense pain.
There she was to show her love. She is a model for something great we can do with our home: open it up for prayer. This is just an outline so to speak. I guess you will have to learn Spanish to read the whole thing. My name is Kerstin Anderas-Lundquist. In we left to begin a missionary life in Chile; in we moved on to Peru. We served as missionaries in Peru and Bolivia.
I am now retired and live in Oklahoma. My husband and daughter Eva-Marie have been promoted to Heaven. Carina and her family live some 15 minutes away. I publish Bible lessons and stories for children in Spanish, for free download.
You can find English stories at MX There are six women in the New Testament named Mary. The most well-known Mary in the Bible is the mother of Jesus. She is the most mentioned woman in the New Testament.
As a virgin she gave birth to Jesus Mathew , raised him along with her husband Joseph, and was a witness to Jesus being crucified on the cross. John Another women who is mentioned numerous times in the New Testament is Mary Magdalene. By: Steve Shirley. Mary Mother of Jesus : From Nazareth.
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