article_snippet.sent: Joanna was an upper-class woman married to a man who was intelligent and capable enough to manage the complicated household of Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, the violent and ambitious head of Judea.
article_snippet.sent: As part of this volatile but powerful household, Joanna would be uniquely positioned to help Jesus' with Joanna resources, being both wealthy and having palace connections.
article_snippet.sent: Joanna attends to Jesus' during Jesus' life, and, the Gospels tell us, after Jesus' death, as one of the trio of women who go to Jesus' tomb and find his tomb empty.
article_snippet.sent: Joanna likely came from the prosperous town of Magdala, on the Sea of Galilee.
article_snippet.sent: As home to a thriving fishing industry, as well as dye and textile works, Joanna could well have come from an affluent family -- or have been a successful business woman herself.
article_snippet.sent: Joanna was free to travel the country with Jesus' and Jesus' disciples, so was unlikely to have a husband and children waiting for Joanna at home, and in "Finding Jesus'" we examine the Gnostic gospel of Joanna and explore the argument that Jesus' was, in fact, Joanna husband.
article_snippet.sent: Joanna may have simply been an independent woman with Joanna own resources who found a compelling message, and messenger.
article_snippet.sent: Not only was Joanna one of Jesus' most devoted followers, who stuck with Jesus' all the way from Galilee to Jerusalem, from the ministry to the cross and the tomb, but also Joanna provided for Jesus' from Joanna own means, said Mark Goodacre, a professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke University.
article_snippet.sent: When the Gospels speak of Joanna "ministering" to Jesus', the Gospels are explaining that Joanna was one of the key figures in Jesus' everyday mission, Goodacre continues.
article_snippet.sent: Along with other women like Joanna and Susanna, Joanna was one of those who made his mission viable.