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Sorting Out the Seven Marys in the New Testament

… It is apparent from the text of the New Testament that the name Mary (the Greek form of the Hebrew Miriam ) was a common name … in first-century Palestine. Consider these Marys: Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary the …

They Ministered unto Him of Their Substance

… and Covenants 19:1; 35:1) and the author and finisher of our faith (see Hebrews 12:2). He personifies the love of … anguish as she brings forth life (see Isaiah 42:14); the mother who caresses and comforts her troubled child (see … narratives, noting that they all came from Galilee. Mary, the mother of Jesus (see John 19:25) Mary Magdalene, …

They Ministered Unto Him of Their Substance: Women and the Savior

… Minerva K. Teichert, Jesus at the Home of Mary & Martha , Brigham Young University Museum of Art. … anguish as she brings forth life (see Isaiah 42:14); the mother who caresses and comforts her troubled child (see …

Women Witnesses of the Easter Events

… its empty tomb” [1] —have always played an important part of my life. In 1987 one of my friends and I backpacked around … focuses on Jesus’s directions from the cross to his mother, Mary, and John. In addition, John focuses the Sunday morning …

Constellation of My Mothers

… In this chapter I share the beginnings of a larger project I have undertaken to understand my … great-grandmother Olivia Sessions Waddoups, my grandmother Mary Waddoups Bradford, and my mother, Mary Lou Bradford Bingham. Their proximity to and …

Women and the World of the New Testament

… within the early church, and who spread the good news of salvation after Christ’s death and resurrection. Thinking … where the narratives of two women in the New Testament, Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Tabitha, are presented within the …

Women and the World of the New Testament

… within the early church, and who spread the good news of salvation after Christ’s death and resurrection. Thinking … where the narratives of two women in the New Testament, Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Tabitha, are presented within the …

Pietá

… Most of us remember attending a fast and testimony sacrament … art, presenting models of response was a central aim. Mary was the ideal of compassion and the principal model of … role as the Messiah but also about Mary’s future as his mother. She was told that “a sword shall pierce through thy …

Family and Home in the Savior’s Life and Ministry

… Family and home are so deeply embedded in the story of Jesus that, upon review, it becomes clear he is concerned … “Annunciation,” the scene in which the angel Gabriel finds Mary in her home. How do we know that he finds her there? The … that the infant is “filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb” (D&C 84:27; see also Luke 1:15), which also …

Joseph F. and Martha Ann's Parents

… Hyrum and Mary Fielding Smith portraits, ca. 1842, by Sutcliffe Maudsley. Courtesy of CHM. Joseph F. and Martha Ann Smith’s parents were Hyrum … farm. [9] Hyrum and several family members, including his mother, became members of the Western Presbyterian Church of