'Women' in the Bible

And coming to her, the angel said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”

And she exclaimed loudly, “Blessed [worthy to be praised] are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater [in privilege] than he.”

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, called Magdalene [from the city of Magdala in Galilee], from whom seven demons had come out,

And when she has found it, she calls together her [women] friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I found the lost coin!’

but when this [other] son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with immoral women, you slaughtered that fattened calf for him!’

There will be two women grinding [at the mill] together; the one (the non-believer) will be taken [away in judgment] and the other (the believer) will be left.

Following Him was a large crowd of the people, including women who were mourning and wailing for Him.

And all His acquaintances and the women who had accompanied Him from Galilee were standing at a distance, watching these things.

Now the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed [closely], and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared [to finish anointing the body].

and as the women were terrified and were bowing their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living One among the dead?

Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna [the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward] and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles.

But their report seemed to them like idle talk and nonsense, and they would not believe them.

And also some of the women among us shocked us. They were at the tomb early in the morning,

Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women had said, but they did not see Him.”