Woman in the New Testament

Mojgan. H.F.CNN: The role of women in the Bible has always been highly understood and valued. While for centuries women have fought many battles in search of their lost rights, in the Bible in the New Testament this has reached its most beautiful perfection, far from human tensions and conflicts.

The strong hands of women, from “Sarah, Ruth, and Esther” to “Martha, Susan, and Mary,” have woven the thread of love delicately and deeply. This truth is beautifully demonstrated where, amidst endless inequalities, human identity, regardless of color, gender, and race, is glorified from servitude and slavery to sonship and heir to the kingdom of God.

And as for me, today's woman, I was standing in my millennium, and my body, tired of the cruelty of earthly laws, was suffering the wounds of a thousand lashes. When I had run from the pale rights of being a girl to the right to the doors of motherhood, when I was tired at the well of life, I had pulled a veil over my face to hide my dried tears and tired body, kind hands generously gifted me the water of life, and amidst the good news, my tired soul blossomed into an eternal hope.

In describing the social value of women in the New Testament, we can point to the colorful role of women during the life of Jesus Christ. All earthly calculations are disrupted and women in every economic and social situation are subject to divine grace and walk this path with the mission and saving message of Christ. In many events of the New Testament, the presence of women in the company of Jesus Christ is mentioned, as it is stated in the Word that Jonah and Susan and many other women served Jesus and his disciples even from their personal property.

When Jesus Christ gave the Samaritan woman living water at the well, and that woman, without the slightest judgment about her past, became the initiator of mercy for her people. Or the woman who was delivered from the stoning of the law into the safe hands of love, Mary Magdalene, who received great grace from her Savior and courageously carried out her role among Jesus' disciples faithfully to the foot of the cross amidst the fear and denial of other disciples. All of these have been a beautiful outline of God's plan from beginning to end, and they show the social role of women in God's saving message.

 They were the first to announce the resurrection of Christ to others, as stated in Mark 16:7: “But go and tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there he will see you, just as he told you before he died.”

In describing the social values ​​of women in the New Testament, it would be better to say that they were part of the divine family alongside men in a single body, and there was no longer any need for them to fight for their most certain human rights. Their presence was not in the shadows, but in complete light and clarity.

And this makes it clear that women have played and will play an important role in the mission of the saving message, the mothers of the nations who will raise many children on the lap of Jesus Christ to proclaim the saving message of the Gospel to all, with the help of the Holy Spirit, from generation to generation until Christ returns again.