Why were all of Jesus's desciples male?

Question

Sexism? Or was he just a bit gay?

Answer 1

His disciples were not all male, there originally were at least 5 women, but the early church rewrote historical accounts to keep the church dominated by male power alone... Mary and Martha as mentioned in the bible were actually Jesus first two disciples

Answer 2

Didn't Jesus train as a Rabbi? Rabbi's marry don't they? As a rule it would have been socially expected that he get married.
Wasn't celibacy more of a thing from other religions at the time?For some anyway, worth checking into.

Since there were a lot of Romans got into early Christianity wouldn't this be something they thought Holy? A kind of addition to the whole promo?Wasn't this all written down oh three hundred or so years after the fact anyway? By scribes?
You know those guys were big on creative writing. They added and took away according to what they thought got the message across. There was some big story about Jesus entering the temple was a complete fiction. I was listening to an interview on CBC radio afew months ago. It was an author who had gone to seminary school talking about this stuff. Very interesting. I really must learn to take notes.

The King James version of the bible really should be eliminated. You know that man had an english translation done and decided it gave women too much power and had that all removed and changed so we were powered down. Why on earth is that thing still around?

Mary and Mary were around Jesus the most. You honestly don't think they got the most info? His mother knew him best. Wow. She would have the most insight of all. I have sons, I know! Women should not be automatical assumed less able to grasp the 'greatness' of things. I take exception to the dumbing down of Jesus's mother and the other women around him! That is exactly what this is all about isn't it? Men dumbing down women!

Interesting clinging to the word definitions, apostle or deciple? I came accross a poem called The Thunder Perfect Mind. A bit obscure, but it has something to offer that is very important to this question and answer. Look it up on the internet, I strongly recommend it! Read it a few times. It will be too much of a riddle for some of you, but if you get its meaning it will wow you.

Anyway, a real teacher knows that to be a teacher you are always a student. It shows humility and wisdom. If Mary stated she was a student she was truly wise and knew where to place her humility. The moment a teacher stops being a student they become 'obselete' and are arrogant.

So why were Jesus's decilples all male? that was the question. They were not and so we all think oh you mean the apostles. Well I have a lot of suspisions about that since all these generations of writing after the fact were by men from patriarchial societies. Jewish culture was very male dominant during that time and I believe, please correct me if I am wrong, that the surrounding and converted peoples would have been from similar roots. You really think they would leep to adjust to Jesus's feminist views?

Yes, I think Jesus was a feminist. If you think about what things were like for women during those times and you recognize the watering down of womens importance in the generations of the bible and you realise that the early Christian church was built largely by women leaders whose names are recorded in history, yes dig for it they are there!

The gay part dosn't even enter into it for me. Rome didn't care if you were gay! In the Jewish culture a different story. Really I don't care, the women in this story really do hold the key!

Eyes open, arms wide!
Peace.

Answer 3

Actually, all of His disciples weren't male -- it was the Apostles who were males. There were many women who sat at His feet to learn, including Mary and Martha.

See Luke 10:39, where Mary adopts the customary position of a "learner" (which is the meaning of "disciple") at Jesus' feet. Further confirmation that Mary was a "learner" may be found at John 20:16, where Mary calls Him "Rabboni" (meaning "teacher").

EDIT: "L'Chaim," why do you continue to insist this? There is no evidense to support your claims. Do a bit of research and you will see it's untrue that all Jewish men were forced to marry.

Answer 4

Some say Mary Magdalene was one of his desciples... More troubling is the fact that he never married. That would have been unheard of at that time!

Jesus was a Jew -- a Jew's first commandment is to be fruitful and multiply. Jews were not considered adults until marriage. If Jesus was not married, he would have had no followers whatsoever.
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Answer 5

No...it was just the culture of those times that it was the men who engaged in learning and working while women stayed at home raising the family and such.

Answer 6

Sounds like they were all gay.

Answer 7

Jesus liked bum.