From a Facebook post whose author (of both the text and the drawing) is a pastor with the pseudonym Naked Pastor:
The drawing’s dialogue:
The women say to Jesus: “We don’t understand why You had so many faithful women disciples, but we are not included among the 12, and are hardly mentioned at all!!”
Jesus points to a group of men who are writing the Scriptures and look caught out, and replies: “Ask them.”
I think that Jesus had many followers and that many of them, if not the majority, were women.
But the men who wrote the gospels and founded the early Christian communities felt compelled to describe Jesus in such a way that, according to their views, the prophecies of the Old Testament would be fulfilled.
That included 12 men, symbolizing the 12 tribes of Israel.
From time to time, however, a grain of important information leaks out, revealing that something else was going on. For example, the woman at the well [Gospel of John 4]. Or the woman caught in adultery [Gospel of John 8]. Or the Syrophoenician woman. Or Mary Magdalene. Or the women who followed Jesus, who were most likely his [Jesus’s] main financial supporters, mentioned only briefly in chapter 8 of the Gospel of Luke.
But the men structured something, and the women had to step aside.
Author: Naked Pastor
Source: Facebook