1. John, father of Simon Peter (Matthew 16:17 GNB)
2. John the Baptist (Matthew 3:1, etc)
3. John the Apostle (Matthew 10:2, etc)
4. John of the high-priestly family (Acts 4:6)
5. John Mark (Acts 12:12, etc)
5 women at the cross
Matthew tells us that there were many women at the cross ... women who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him. Among them he says were (See Matthew 27:55–56)
1. Mary Magdalene
2. Mary the mother of James and Joseph
3. The mother of the sons of Zebedee (identified as Salome in Mark 15:45 and as the sister of Mary Jesus's mother in John 19:25)
John Mentions
4. Jesus's mother also
5. Mary the wife of Clopas
5 or 6 women called Mary in the New Testament
The name Mary appears some 46 times in the NewTestament.
These references concern some different women.
1. Mary the mother of Jesus (Matthew 1:16, etc)
2. Mary Magdalene, who, according to John Wenham (The Easter Enigma) is the same woman as Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and Lazarus (Matthew 27:56, 61, 28:1, etc inc Luke 8:2 Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out and Luke 10:39, 42).
The idea is that rich Mary left the family home in Bethany and went to Magdala where she became a prostitute but was wonderfully restored.
The woman of John 12:3 is again then the same person.
3. Mary the wife of Clopas (John 19:25). She is probably the other Mary of Matthew 28:1 and the same woman that Mark identifies as Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph (Mark 15:40; see also Matthew 27:56, Luke 24:10).
4. Mary the mother of John Mark (Acts 12:12)
5. Mary of Rome (Romans 16:6). This could be one of the other Marys, such as John Mark's mother.
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