How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

This may not sound like an important point, but we see Jesus breaking from norm in the way he traveled as well. He was not only accompanied by male followers but also several female followers.* Normally, to have these women traveling with the group would have been viewed as scandalous.9 Ironically, the women in this traveling group are the ones supplying the financial means for them to be traveling together.†