'Women' in the Bible

"I tell you the truth, among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.

Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

Not counting children and women, there were four thousand men who ate.

There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support were also there, watching from a distance.

But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is."

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master is delayed in returning,' and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."

A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Then the women remembered his words,

Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?"

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.

On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

Likewise the women are to dress in suitable apparel, with modesty and self-control. Their adornment must not be with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters -- with complete purity.

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from humanity as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb,