2015-05-10
Mother's Day
Brad Bertelsen

Mark 5:21-43

Mark 7:24-30

Mark 12:41-44

Mark 14:3-9

Mark 15:40-41, 47

Mark 16:1-8

Women in the 1st century
Second class citizens
Equal to slaves
Should not be educated
Should not sit under rabbi teaching
Could not be a witness in a trial
Could not speak with men that were not family or husband
Viewed as property of husband or father
Women unclean for seven days during menstruation Lev 15:19
Were not important, seldom written about
All gentile women were unclean
Role: stay home, have children, cook, etc