Woman, Behold Your Son!
Standing near the cross are the women who were closest to Jesus. Confusedly most of them are called Mary. They are standing by Jesus when all but one of his disciples have fled and abandoned him. His mother is there, of course. Jesus looks up and sees her there … and standing right next to her is the disciple whom he perhaps loved most of all – John. Seeing them there together, Jesus says to his mother, ‘Dear woman, here is your son’ … and to his disciple, he says ‘here is your mother.’ (John 19:26,27). Jesus’ brothers had left him we are told earlier in John’s Gospel (John 7:5) and since Joseph had most probably died by this time, Mary was alone. So Jesus asks his dearest friend to take on the responsibility for the care of his mother.
Unjustly impaled on a cross, in…
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