One of the interesting aspects of Jesus resurrection was its...

One of the interesting aspects of Jesus resurrection was its announcement and witness.

The society in Jesus time was extremely sexist, women were second class citizens and their testimony was not worth a pinch of salt in any legal sense.

If you were to start a religion and plan it out

you definitely would not want to begin with the key element of the faith being first discovered by a woman.

Celsus who was an early critic of Christianity made fun of the testimony found in the Gospel accounts of what he thought could only be described as hysterical as it came from women.

For Jesus to first appear after his resurrection to a woman he certainly shook the status quo up, and for the witness of Gospel to first fall on the eyes of a woman He certainly had no issue with the value or dignity of women.

New American Standard Bible
Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.


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