Day 17: Luke 7-9. Healing, Teaching, Following Jesus
In Luke 7, Jesus heals a centurion's servant, a story we might be familiar with. Then he balances that story with one about Jesus raising a widow's son from the dead. Luke is careful to include many stories about women in the gospel. There's also the unnamed woman who anoints Jesus' feet with her tears while he's dining at Simon's house. She is identified as a "sinner", which leads many people to consider he to be a prostitute. Really, is prostitute the only sin open to women (at least in those times?) Also, I still wonder about identifying people as "sinners". To me, it's like saying, that person is a "human being." Mary Magdalene is named as one of the followers of Jesus at the beginning of Luke 8. Luke also mentions (without saying much more) that several women travelled with him and supported his ministry. Some of the names are interesting though, like Joanna, who is coincidentally, the wife of HEROD'S stewar...