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Women and Men in the Fourth Gospel: A Genuine Discipleship of Equals is unavailable, but you can change that!

The fourth gospel presents the reader with an early Christian text in which women and men are treated as “a discipleship of equals.” Specifically, the gospel contains six examples of “gender pairs” of characters (a widely-accepted Lukan feature). The members of each pair are portrayed in a parallel or contrasting faith encounter with the Johannine Jesus that is of substantial theological...

teaching on the true nature of his messiahship and mission, and of their own discipleship. By contrast, the Markan women, who are genuine disciples by the Gospel’s own definition (they follow, minister to and ‘come with’ Jesus),14 often take the initiative, and consistently demonstrate bold and active faith.15 In the passion narrative where the men betray, deny or desert Jesus, the women remain faithful to the end.16 Matthew adds little to Mark’s woman-texts and paints a more positive portrait of
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