To understand these instructions, we must look at them in light of the whole Bible. Jesus set women free. He treated them as human beings. He recognized and responded to their needs as human needs. He taught women and included them as his followers. He proved himself to be their Savior, too. The accepted view of women in the time of Christ was as property rather than persons. Jesus personally shattered that conception. The gospel offered to women the gift of personhood—they were worthy of salvation.