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Mary of Clopas is explicitly mentioned only in John 19:25, where she is among the women present at the crucifixion of Jesus: Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother and His mother’s sister, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. [3] The Gospels of Mark and Matthew each include similar passages that are nearly identical to one another:
The others are mentioned by one gospel only: Mary, the mother of Jesus; Mary, the mother of the sons of Zebedee; Salome; a sister of Mary, mother of Jesus; Mary of Clopas. Attempts have been made to consider Mary of Clopas, the mother of James and Josepsh/Joses, and a half-sister or sister-in-law of Mary the mother of Jesus as different ...
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. He is often identified with another figure of a similar name, Cleophas ( ΚλεοπαΎ¶ς ), one of the two disciples who met Christ during the road to Emmaus appearance ( Luke 24:13–27 ).
Jerome's argument produces the unlikely result of two sisters both named Mary. [39] A modern variant eliminates this by identifying Clopas as the brother of Joseph, thereby making the two Marys sisters-in-law; in this version Jesus' cousin Simon is identified with Symeon the second leader of the church in Jerusalem. [39] [40]
Mary, the mother of Jesus; Mary of Clopas; Salome, in this tradition called Mary Salome (as in the tradition of the three Marys at the tomb) Mary Magdalene is not part of this group. [16] Mary Salome thus becomes the half-sister of the Virgin Mary. This account was included in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine, written in about 1260. [17]
Mary of Clopas; Mary Salome; The other gospels give various indications about the number and identity of women visiting the tomb: John 20:1 mentions only Mary Magdalene, but has her use the plural, saying: "We do not know where they have laid him" . Matthew 28:1 says that Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary" went to see the tomb.
The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, which was probably written in the seventh century, states that Mary of Clopas was daughter of Clopas and Anna: . Jesus met them, with Mary His mother, along with her sister Mary of Clopas, whom the Lord God had given to her father Clopas and her mother Anna, because they had offered Mary the mother of Jesus to the Lord.
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and the sister of his mother, Mary [the wife] of Clopas and Mary Magdalene. [40] This passage can be read as there being four women: (1) Mary the mother of Jesus, (2) her sister (or perhaps cousin, the Aramaic words being the same), (3) Mary the wife of Clopas, and (4) Mary Magdalene.