Why Were Jesus’ Financial Supporters All Women?

We talk a lot about Jesus’s teachings… his miracles… his disciples.

But we rarely talk about how it all got funded.

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The ministry of Jesus—his travel, his meals, his healing—was financially supported by women.

Not religious leaders.

Not wealthy men.

‍Women.

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‍Mary Magdalene. Joanna. Susanna.

They weren’t background characters.

‍They were stakeholders.

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‍They didn’t give to be noticed.

They gave because they had been changed.

And love does that. It loosens our grip and opens our hands.

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And if that was true then… maybe it’s still true now.