 Theologian Adrian Hastings suggested that she could have been one of Luke's sources for information regarding the Herodian court.As the wife of an important court official, she would have had sufficient means needed to travel and contribute to the support of Jesus and the disciples.Joanna is named among the women mentioned in , who, along with Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, took spices to Jesus' tomb and found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty.