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[24] [25] Catholic commentators, on the basis of these two passages, often connect Mary with the "woman" of Genesis 3:15, and the "woman clothed with the sun" in Revelation 12, and therefore see this title of "woman" as a justification for the veneration of Mary as a second Eve.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. The New International Version translates the passage as:
Muse in your heart the seven words that Jesus pronounced in bitter sorrows when he was on the cross, covered with wounds. The Seven Words 1st Word: Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they do! 2nd Word: Woman, behold your son! John, behold your mother! 3rd Word: In truth, I tell you: today you'll be in Heaven with me.
One of several pieces of evidence Tabor offers is a literal interpretation of John 19:26: [52] "Then when Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son." However, elsewhere in the Gospel, the beloved disciple refers to the risen Jesus as "the Lord" rather than as "my brother".
Sheen sees an echo of the Protevangelium of Genesis 3:15 "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers", [h] marking the commencement of Jesus' redemptive ministry. [5] Jesus will again address her as "Woman" in John 19:26, [i] when he entrusts his mother to his disciple John, "Woman, behold, your son." [3]
However, the rest of the verse qualifies what is said, “Whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt.” Lapide gives a number of reasons why John was so highly esteemed by Christ: "a standing miracle in his conception, in the womb, in his birth, in his angelic life.
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. The New International Version translates the passage as:
John 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel. [1]