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THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ allow women disciples; and evidently disciples were just teachers in training. Jesus treated women with dignity and respect. To have sent women out on the preaching missions (e.g., Mark 6:7—13) was not practical due to the safety reasons, since they will have to travel alone and lodge in far places where they will not be culturally acceptable. This is why the selection of Apostles who were sent out included only men. But the Apostles did take their wives with them. But they were never sent out alone to preach the gospel outside of their own villages. Imagine Mrs. Thomas coming to India alone to preach the gospel and its consequences. While they could be powerful witness in the neighborhood, they will not be received easily in a world following patriarchal system. Jesus even had talked to a Samaritan woman an untouchable and asked for a drink from her even when it was forbidden; “for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans”. He allowed himself to be touched by women in their uncleanness and be healed. We have a list of women followers who witnessed the crucifixion even when all other disciples fled. This is because women were not taken seriously by the Roman Society. 210
THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ Mar 15:40 There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Mag'dalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salo'me, Gospels unanimously report that God chose women as the first witnesses of the Resurrection, even though the testimony of the women was not acceptable in the Jewish courts. Even the Apostles had difficulty in accepting the testimony of the women. Luk 24:10-11 Now it was Mary Mag'dalene and Jo-an'na and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles; but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But these women were indeed “Apostles to the Apostles” In first-century Jewish culture, the way Jesus treated women was indeed revolutionary. “Jesus always showed the greatest esteem and the greatest respect for woman, for every woman, and in particular He was sensitive to female suffering. Going beyond the social and religious barriers of the time, Jesus reestablished woman in her full dignity as a human person before God and before men ... Christ’s way of acting, the Gospel of his words and deeds, is a consistent protest against whatever offends the dignity of women.” – John <strong>Paul</strong> II, "Thoughts on Women─Address to Italian Maids," April 1979 As the power fell on the disciples they all – men and women – spoke in tongues and the church began to form in the Jerusalem communes, It was women who opened their homes as meeting places (Rom 16:5; 1 Cor 16:19). The daughters of Philip prophesied (Acts 21:9). 211
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