5 others in the registry answer to the name Mary. Every Mary in the Bible
- verses
- 7
- first named
- Matthew 27:56
- last named
- John 19:27
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Woman
Description
Who was Mary?
Mary, the wife of Cleopas (or 'Alphaeus'), was one of the women present at the crucifixion of Jesus. She stood near the cross along with Jesus' mother, Mary, and Mary Magdalene. This brief mention in John's Gospel provides insight into the group of faithful women who witnessed Jesus' suffering and death (Jhn.19.25). In Catholic theology, where Mary the mother of Jesus remains a virgin, Mary the wife of Cleopas is the mother of Jesus' brothers, so her sons James and Joses are identical to the James and Joses who are listed as 'brothers' of Jesus along with Simon and Judas who are therefore also her sons (Mat.13.55
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Associated with
Mother of
- Jamesregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decisionMatthew 27:56Mark 15:40Luke 24:10
- JosesregistryMatthew 27:56Mark 15:40
- Matthewregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- JesusJohn 19:25
Partner of
- Alphaeusregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
Stands in the same events as
- Mary Magdalene6 events
- Sabbath2 events
- Salome2 events
- Jesus1 event
- Standing1 event
- Two Of Them1 event
- Joanna1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Mary is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Matthew (3), Mark (2), Luke (1) and John (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 4 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Matthew 28Mary went with Mary Magdalene to see the tomb, then grasped Jesus’ feet and worshiped Him.
- Mark 15Mary, the mother of James the younger and of Joses, watched from a distance with the other women.
- Mark 16Mary the mother of James goes with Mary Magdalene and Salome to anoint the body of Jesus.
- Luke 24Mary, the mother of James, joins the women who visit the tomb and report what they have seen.
- John 19Mary, Jesus’ mother, stands near the cross and is entrusted to the beloved disciple.
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