Jesus’s public career as a traveling preacher and healer lasted only three years—less than Nirvana and the Smiths, slightly longer than Cream and the Sex Pistols, and about as long as the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He was only one of many radical preachers of the time, and traveled with twelve men and several women—at least three. You might think that this would mean there were actually fifteen apostles. But women aren’t counted as people in the Bible, so any female apostles were officially decreed by the early church to have been sacred-adjacent groupies.
