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Hannah's Song - Sung by Mary

The Gospel of Luke, above all books of the New Testament, is about women. It reads as if a woman might have written it. It contains intimate details which would hardly have occurred to most men.

It begins with the birth of John the Baptist, focusing on Elizabeth, his mother. The next major section is Mary's story. To her we will shortly return. There follows the prophecy of an old woman named Anna. When the boy Jesus went to the temple to debate with the learned doctors, the only person Luke quotes is his mother.

Many of Luke's stories from Jesus' ministry are about women: the woman who was a sinner, the woman who wouldn't give up in her quest for a cure, the widow of Nain, the bent over woman, the widow who gave her mite to the offering plate. At the resurrection it is only the women who have the faith to go to the garden of graves. Luke lists Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of Jesus, and other women.

Luke reports that when they told the disciples about the empty...

Posted by: Jack Drewes

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