{"id":630,"date":"2015-05-07T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=630"},"modified":"2015-05-07T10:37:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T10:37:33","slug":"blog-may-7th-was-john-a-relative-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Blog – May 7th -Was John a relative of Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Images of Mustard Seed Songs first musical \"His Story\"<\/span><\/font><\/pre>\nhttp:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/01-Uplifted.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n
“Uplifted” from Mustard Seed’s first musical His Story<\/em> – featuring the Mustard Seed Soul Band – album recorded and produced by Ross Gill<\/p>\n
In his Gospel, John writes in Chapter 19 verse 25 \u201cNear the cross of Jesus stood His mother, His mother\u2019s sister, Mary wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene. \u201c (New International Version) Some versions have \u201cNear the cross of Jesus stood His mother and<\/strong> His mother\u2019s sister. \u201c<\/p>\n
So how many women were there at the cross – three or four?  If you interpret the verse to mean His mother, His mother\u2019s sister, who is Mary wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene then its three. If you interpret it as Mary the mother of Jesus, His sister, together with Mary wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene then it is four.<\/p>\n
So if you go for the former interpretation then Mary wife of Clopas is the sister of Jesus\u2019 mother i.e. Jesus\u2019 aunt. Furthermore if Mary is the wife of the Cleopas who met with Jesus on the way to Emmaus that would, of course, make Cleopas, Jesus\u2019 uncle.<\/p>\n
Now let\u2019s look at the interpretation that there were, in fact four women at the cross. Mark 15:40 tells us that Salome was there watching, so many therefore believe that she and not Mary wife of Clopas is the sister of Mary mother of Jesus. Matthew 27:56 refers to this woman as the mother of Zebedee\u2019s sons and we learn from Mark 1: 19 that Zebedee\u2019s sons were the disciples James and John. So we can therefore deduce that Salome (the sister of Mary the mother of Jesus)   and Zebedee are husband and wife and  the parents  of James and John. They are also aunt and uncle to Jesus with James and John His cousins.<\/p>\n
That John was a relative (and also one of some means – see blog April 30th<\/sup>) may have been the reason why Jesus, as He was dying on the cross, told John to look after His mother.  John 19:25 \u201cDear woman here is your son and to the disciple – here is your Mother. From that day on this disciple took her into his home. \u201c<\/p>\n
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Featured song is again from the Mustard Seed Soul Band – \u201cUplifted\u201d from Mustard Seed\u2019s first musical His Story<\/em> and also the title  track of the album \u201cUplifted.\u201d  It was inspired by the soul classics \u201cIn the Midnight Hour\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t know like I know\u201d and \u201cHigher and Higher\u201d (see blog April 30th<\/sup>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
   Images of Mustard Seed Songs first musical “His Story” “Uplifted” from Mustard Seed’s first musical His Story – featuring the Mustard Seed Soul Band – album recorded and produced by Ross Gill In his Gospel, John writes in Chapter 19 verse 25 \u201cNear the cross of Jesus stood His mother, His mother\u2019s sister, Mary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}