Eleven Men Ran. Five Women Stayed. Here's Why It Matters [Explained in 20 Minutes]

#bible #Thebibleexplained #Biblestories #bibleoverview When Jesus was crucified, eleven of his twelve male disciples ran. Five women stayed. This is their story — the story of Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary of Clopas, Salome, and Joanna — the women who stood at the foot of the cross when everyone else fled. It is also the story of a 33-year-old prophecy that finally landed, a Roman execution that was itself an act of public defiance to witness, and the reason the first person on earth to see the risen Christ was not an apostle, but a woman most sermons still get wrong. Drawing on Scripture, the Jewish historian Josephus, the church historians Eusebius and Hippolytus of Rome, and the second-century writings of Hegesippus, this video traces every woman named at the cross — who they were, what they risked, and why their names were written down when a woman's testimony was not even legally admissible in the ancient world. If you have ever loved someone you could not save, this video is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more Bible explainer videos every week 👍 LIKE if this helped you see the crucifixion in a new light 💬 COMMENT below: which of these five women's stories hit you the hardest? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMELINE 00:00 — A hill outside Jerusalem 01:20 — The prophecy 33 years earlier 02:30 — Setting the scene: Roman-occupied Judea 04:15 — Where the eleven men were hiding 05:45 — Mary the mother of Jesus 06:50 — Mary Magdalene (and the myth that will not die) 08:20 — Mary of Clopas — Jesus' aunt 09:10 — The Greek word "histemi" and why it changes everything 10:20 — Salome and the seats she asked for 12:00 — Joanna, the spy in Herod's palace 13:15 — Susanna — the woman we know nothing about 14:00 — Three hours of darkness 16:20 — "Woman, behold your son" 17:30 — The sword lands — 33 years late 18:20 — The first witness of the resurrection 19:30 — Three takeaways ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 KEY BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED Matthew 27:55-56 — "And many women were there beholding afar off..." Mark 15:40-41 — "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less..." Luke 23:49 — "the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off..." John 19:25-27 — "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother..." Luke 2:34-35 — Simeon's prophecy: "a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also" Luke 8:1-3 — Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna support Jesus' ministry Matthew 20:20-21 — Salome asks Jesus for the seats of honor Mark 16:9 — "he appeared first to Mary Magdalene" John 20:1-18 — Mary Magdalene, first witness of the resurrection Luke 24:10 — The women who brought the resurrection news