Hello, my name is Lynn Hilton Wilson and I'm part of the Scripture Central team. Today I'm talking

about a subject that is not part of the Come Follow Me specifically, but generally. I want to take a step

back and look at the women in the New Testament. I want to take a step back and look how Christ

empowered them.

And if we know enough about their culture, we see this emancipation.

And I've talked about this every week with Come Follow Me,

but I've decided to divide it into two lessons. The first one on the Gospels, the women there,

and the second one on Paul and Peter, and how they were

treated in the Apostolic Church, how they treated women.

And was there the same evidence there of following Christ or were they just following their

culture?

So this small section, I feel, will help us to be able to see the scriptures with the lens

of history that will bring them more meaningfully to life.

Just as a reminder, the New Testament covers the entire Roman Empire.

The Gospels mainly deal with the area that we now refer to as Israel.

But there were Jews and missionary works scattered all over the Roman Empire.

So by the time those people are writing out the Gospels, they know the gospel has been spreading around the empire.

This Second Temple period had a lot of historical challenges, not only in the Judaic world, but in the Greco-Roman world.

And they all affected what Christ taught, what the apostles taught, and what is written in the text.

Some of those things are written by a great historian named Josephus.

He's not just a historian. He was also a priest. He worked in the temple. He had seen the veil. He knew those things. He wasn't the high priest. He's just a priest. But he also became a general for the armies. He often quotes scripture and says, for the scripture says, but it's not in our scriptures. These are things that were part of the traditions of the Jews.

A woman is inferior to her husband in all things. Making matters worse than that, they blame Eve for all the

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