Mark 15:40-41 (ESV)
There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
It is interesting that in all the accounts in the Gospel that record the first day of the week and the visiting of the tomb include that is was by the above women. The last account of his death only includes these women. In neither of the Gospel writings does it record the male disciples hanging around. John’s Gospel makes mention that Jesus told John to care for Mary, but that was early in his time on the cross. The argument from the silence of the Gospels does not mean that the men were not their to the end, but it does cause one to wonder. We are specifically told that the women were there to the very end and the first to be there after Jesus’ resurrection. In those days, women were not to be used in a court of law as a reliable source as a witness to anything. Yet, the God of the universe specifically mentions the women in this way. It ought to show us how God, through Christianity, a faith based system, elevated the position of women. These women were faith to the end. The men went fishing, we know that. They returned to their jobs. But the women stayed faithful at the end and were curious at the beginning of the resurrection. A woman is the first to hear of Jesus’ birth in the Gospels, Mary, and women are in the scene at the end. Never underestimate the role of women in God’s plan and designs.
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