7.3
Women in the Gospel of Mark
This chart shows the female Characters in Mark’s Gospel and other references to women, both real and fictional, along with cross-references to other Gospels.
Character/Episode |
Mark |
Matthew |
Luke |
John |
Healing of Simon’s mother-in-law |
1:29–31 |
8:14–15 |
4:38–39 |
|
Concern of Jesus’s family: mother and brothers |
3:19b–21, 31–35 |
12:46–50 |
8:19–21 |
|
The daughter of Jairus |
5:21–24, 35–43 |
9:18–19, 23–26 |
8:40–42, 49–56 |
|
A woman with a flow of blood |
5:25–34 |
9:20–22 |
8:43–48 |
|
Jesus is called “Son of Mary”; reference to his sisters |
6:3 |
13:55–56 |
|
[6:42] |
John the Baptist’s death: Herodias and her daughter |
6:17–29 |
14:3–12 |
[3:19–20] |
|
The Syrophoenician woman and her daughter |
7:24–30 |
15:21–28 |
|
|
On divorce |
10:2–12 |
19:3–12 |
[16:18] |
|
Jesus quotes the Decalogue: “Honor your father and mother” |
10:19 |
19:19 |
18:20 |
|
“No one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for the sake of the good news . . ." |
10:29–30 |
19:29 |
18:29 |
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The case of a woman who had seven husbands |
12:18–27 |
22:23–33 |
20:27–40 |
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The widow’s mite |
12:41–44 |
|
21:1–4 |
|
Apocalyptic discourse: children rise against their parents |
13:12 |
[10:21] |
21:16 |
|
“Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing . . .” |
13:17 |
24:19 |
21:23 |
|
Anointing in Bethany: anonymous woman |
14:3–9 |
26:6–13 |
[7:36–50] |
12:1–8 |
Peter’s denial: the serving girl |
14:66–72 |
26:69–75 |
22:56–62 |
18:25–27 |
Women at the cross: Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of James and Joses, and Salome |
15:40–41 |
27:55–56 |
23:49 |
19:25b–27 |
Women see where Jesus is buried |
15:47 |
27:61 |
23:55–56 |
|
Women go to Jesus’s tomb |
16:1–8 |
28:1–8 |
24:1–11 |
20:1–2, 11–13 |