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Luke
  
JESUS' CONSTANT COMPANIONS
(Luke 8:1-3)
1Now it came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him, 2And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities -- Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons,3and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who provided for Him from their substance.


Luke is the only evangelist who reports the way in which Jesus Christ obtained money for his living and dressing, he and his disciples. The Lord refused to make bread miraculously out of stones, so the women whom he healed gave him of their money to facilitate the ministry of the Lord and his apostles. Some of them accompanied the procession of salvation, without being rejected by the Lord, for the majesty of his power and the holiness of his person kept them together with his disciples in purity. No impurity ever broke out near Christ, which indicates the kind of love in heaven, where there is no sexual relation, but thankfulness, holy love, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
It is a great privilege in Christianity that not only men are faithful, but women are as well. Those noble maidservants did not talk much, but devoted their attention, with their practical mind, to useful food and clean dress.
Many women in the world, through Christ, became free from contempt as being creatures in a degree beneath that of men, for Christ forgives them their sins as he forgives men, all the same, placing them at the same level in redemptive salvation. Even today, Christ offers the fullness of the gospel to all women and girls, that is half of human beings. He who hears his voice comes to him, becomes sanctified, and serves him practically, as the respectable ladies served him at that time.