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

 

The case of a woman who had seven husbands

12:18–27

22:23–33

20:27–40

 

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