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| rdfs:label | - Female disciples of Jesus
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| rdfs:comment | - Some people unfamiliar with the New Testament claim that the case for female disciples of Jesus is controversial. However, as explained below, "disciple" means "one who follows a person's moral teachings", more commonly called a "student". The New Testament clearly identifies a number of women who chose to follow Jesus, but it's not clear that they chose to follow Jesus' teachings. The four gospels differ in the number, name, and role of such women that they name. Even greater variation is found in the noncanonical gospels, books that are not considered scripture by most denominations, Christian religions and the vast majority of scholars of Christianity.
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| abstract | - Some people unfamiliar with the New Testament claim that the case for female disciples of Jesus is controversial. However, as explained below, "disciple" means "one who follows a person's moral teachings", more commonly called a "student". The New Testament clearly identifies a number of women who chose to follow Jesus, but it's not clear that they chose to follow Jesus' teachings. The four gospels differ in the number, name, and role of such women that they name. Even greater variation is found in the noncanonical gospels, books that are not considered scripture by most denominations, Christian religions and the vast majority of scholars of Christianity. Some of the women feature prominently in accounts of Jesus' crucifixion and in reports of his resurrection. In some gospel accounts, women were the first to receive a sign of Jesus' resurrection and to report it to others (the "Good news"). One of the apocryphal gospels, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, is attributed to the most famous of Jesus' female disciples, Mary Magdalene.
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