Easter | Women Witnesses | April 14-20 | Come Follow Church History with Lynne Hilton Wilson

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode of Come, Follow Church History from Scripture Central, Lynne Hilton Wilson shares her amazing research about 12 women mentioned by name in the New Testament. The detailed descriptions of their stories shine a light on the radical cultural change ushered in by the Savior about the treatment of women.

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0:00.0	Men were discouraged from speaking to women, even their own spouses.
0:03.0	Women often did the work of slaves or children.
0:06.0	Women were segregated in the home.
0:08.0	They were segregated in the synagogue.
0:09.0	They were segregated at the temple.
0:11.0	Christ crashed through the culture that kept women segregated in silence.
0:15.0	Angels came to the women.
0:17.0	The women are the ones who are called to go and tell the apostles. I personally feel
0:22.1	that she is one of the greatest of all the women ever born on the earth.
0:31.5	Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, and I'm thrilled to be able
0:37.1	to talk about Easter on this holy week. I'm going Hilton Wilson and I'm thrilled to be able to talk about Easter on this Holy Week.
0:40.2	I'm going to focus on the women as witnesses. I'm part of the Scripture Central team. We are
0:45.8	trying to build enduring faith in Jesus Christ by illuminating restored scripture and making the
0:52.5	scriptures more accessible and defensible and comprehensible.
0:56.3	And as we look at this wonderful Easter week and we focus today on the women as witnesses,
1:03.1	I'm going to use as my sources, Matthew 21 to 27, Mark chapter 11 through 15,
1:15.4	Luke chapter 19 through 24, and John 21 and 20.
1:23.9	I've chosen as the hard questions this week to go through some of the questions about why we do not have the women records.
1:26.6	They are all the eyewitnesses. They're the ones there first.
1:29.4	And I just want us to step back in history, go back 2,000 years to a time when women were not allowed to speak in a
1:35.3	court of law, when women are not allowed to speak in the Judaic, Phariseic communities,
1:41.3	loud enough for their voice to be heard in the next room or their husbands could
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