I'm researching the various ways teachers and scholars portray the women in Luke 8:1-3. Thank you for the pointing out how difficult it is to sort out their identities with certainty. You suggested the women were "willing to work and provide for these guys going around preaching." I'm curious what their 'ministering' consisted of? Was it domestic activities? Or might they preached? Or did only the men traveling with Jesus preach? Thanks for explaining how some traditions perpetuate unsound Biblical teaching.
There were female deacons in the earliest Church, but they preached only to other women, as was cultural at the time. But for these women, what is meant by ministering, was likely only providing provisions and financial assistance, just as Apostle Paul later on wrote to the Church parishioners that they had received free (meaning spiritual gifts and preaching truths of Jesus), so that they should give free (meaning what they could provide from their fleshly means, cited in verse 3 if you read it properly. The traveling preachers did not have time to establish their trade while traveling, and they were providing their preaching, spiritual teachings for free, and therefore it was proper hospitality for the people to offer them provisions, prepared food, that they would have to go to the marketplace to get, and financial assistance to pay for the food and other necessities. These women were obviously considered quite wealthy or well off to be able to be able to do this. Herod had built the second Temple for the Jews and was extremely materially rich, so his steward probably had a lot of money in savings. This says a lot about the Charism of Jesus that these people wanted to travel with them and provide for them. These Scriptural passages are not unsound at all, it is your expectations of how they should conform to your way of thinking, but they don't, that is unsound. You viewed the video with the negative attitude from the start to claim there is unsound teaching, but you are wrong!
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I'm researching the various ways teachers and scholars portray the women in Luke 8:1-3. Thank you for the pointing out how difficult it is to sort out their identities with certainty. You suggested the women were "willing to work and provide for these guys going around preaching." I'm curious what their 'ministering' consisted of? Was it domestic activities? Or might they preached? Or did only the men traveling with Jesus preach? Thanks for explaining how some traditions perpetuate unsound Biblical teaching.
There were female deacons in the earliest Church, but they preached only to other women, as was cultural at the time. But for these women, what is meant by ministering, was likely only providing provisions and financial assistance, just as Apostle Paul later on wrote to the Church parishioners that they had received free (meaning spiritual gifts and preaching truths of Jesus), so that they should give free (meaning what they could provide from their fleshly means, cited in verse 3 if you read it properly. The traveling preachers did not have time to establish their trade while traveling, and they were providing their preaching, spiritual teachings for free, and therefore it was proper hospitality for the people to offer them provisions, prepared food, that they would have to go to the marketplace to get, and financial assistance to pay for the food and other necessities. These women were obviously considered quite wealthy or well off to be able to be able to do this. Herod had built the second Temple for the Jews and was extremely materially rich, so his steward probably had a lot of money in savings. This says a lot about the Charism of Jesus that these people wanted to travel with them and provide for them. These Scriptural passages are not unsound at all, it is your expectations of how they should conform to your way of thinking, but they don't, that is unsound. You viewed the video with the negative attitude from the start to claim there is unsound teaching, but you are wrong!