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Joanna and Mary Magdalene
How Joanna and Mary Magdalene are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Joanna and Mary Magdalene stood together.
Luke names Mary Magdalene and Joanna together among the women who ministered to Jesus. Both went to the tomb and told the apostles, who took their words for "idle tales".
certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene
Luke 8:2, King James Version
And Joanna the wife of Chuza
Luke 8:3, King James Version
their words seemed to them as idle tales
Luke 24:11, King James Version
Where they cross: Luke 24:10-11
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Luke 8:2
2And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,
Luke 8:3
3And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
Luke 24:10-11
10It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
11And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
King James Version