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Luke makes special reference to the financial support of these women to Jesus's ministry. He says there were many women. He points out that these included women who were prominent in the public life of the state as well as in the church. Luke's account specifies two categories of healing: evil spirits and infirmities.
Jewish women disciples, including Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna, had accompanied Jesus during his ministry and supported him out of their private means. [2] Although the details of these gospel stories may be questioned, in general they reflect the prominent historical roles women played as disciples in Jesus' ministry.
There is nothing to directly indicate Mary Magdalene was a former prostitute, and some scholars believe she was a woman of means who helped support Jesus and his ministry. [ 135 ] : 183–187 In John 20:1–13 , Mary Magdalene sees the risen Jesus alone and he tells her "Don't touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my father."
There are also Bible verses from Paul's letters which support the idea that women are to have a different or submissive role to men: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
Based on their interpretation of certain scriptures complementarians view women's roles in ministry, particularly in church settings, as limited. [18] The complementarian view holds that women should not hold church leadership roles that involve teaching or authority over men. [20]
The verse literally translates to "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus". [2] David Scholer, New Testament scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, believes that the passage is "the fundamental Pauline theological basis for the inclusion of women and men as equal and mutual partners in all of the ministries of the church."
References are made within the earliest Christian communities to the role of women in positions of church leadership. Paul's letter to the Romans, written in the first century, commends Phoebe who is described as "deaconess of the church at Cenchreae" that she be received "in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and ...
The verse is widely used to oppose ordination of women as clergy, and to oppose certain other positions of ministry and leadership for women in large segments of Christianity. Many such groups that do not permit women to become clergy also cite 1 Corinthians 14:32–35 [2] and 1 Timothy 3:1–7. [3]