Jesus and the Social Status of Women

Every culture has its differences but the discriminating and chauvinistic behavioral traits remains the same and carries on throughout generations. Prejudice and Sexism can be traced all the way back to the biblical times when women were viewed as non-existent. But according to the article, “Jesus and the Social Status of Women”, the author Caleb Rosado addresses the fact that Jesus broke the cycle of oppression against women. He informs the audience that Jesus accepts everyone with open arms no matter where they were from or their social rank in society.
In the article, Rosado explains how Jesus treated the women that He encounters and His attitudes towards them. During the time of the New Testament, women were ranked at the bottom of the social chain. They were seen only “in terms of sex and motherhood”, along with being a property of their husband. Jesus’ actions and teachings contradicted all of society’s regulations that were held upon women. In fact in Luke 15, several of His parables were about women. He was “comfortable in the presence of women” and even allowed women to travel with Him and his disciples. Not only did He demonstrate an equality amongst men and women but also reversed the traditional role of the man being the provider. For example, “women provided for the group out of their resources”. The Gospels make it very clear that Jesus adopted a pattern of behavior that implicitly opened the way to a new personal identity and social standing for women.
The second main point is that Rosado informs the audience that society’s psychological way of viewing women derives from prejudice and sexism. He provides a vivid imagery of “prejudice” taking place when Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman. On the exterior, society viewed her as a person “living in sin” due to the fact that she “already had five husbands” and was currently living with a man that was not her husband. But as we take a deeper look into their culture, we must to take into