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- Mary (a tear) of Cleophas. So in Authorized Version, but accurately "of Clopas," i.e. the wife of Clopas (or Alphaeus).
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This view finds support in a fragment found in a medieval manuscript, which lists four Maries mentioned in the gospels and bears the inscription "Papia" on the margin. According to Papias, "Mary the wife of Cleophas or Alphaeus, was the mother of James, Simon and Thaddeus, and of one Joseph."
Clopas was the husband, or possibly the son or father, of one of the women who stood at the foot of the cross when Jesus was crucified (John 19:25). His wife’s name was Mary, and she was distinguished from Mary Magdalene and from Jesus’ mother.
Mary, The (Wife) Of Clopas ( Μαρία ἡ τοῦ Κλωπᾶ, A. V. "of Cleophas"), described by John as standing by the cross of Jesus in company with his mother and Mary Magdalene (Joh 19:25).
Sep 12, 2021 · Another woman named Mary is identified by her husband’s name: Mary the wife of Clopas. Only one verse in the Bible, in John’s biography of Jesus, contains a reference to this Mary or mentions Clopas.
Efforts to connect Clopas, and therefore Alphaeus and his sons, with the family of Jesus, are based on the inference that only three women are named in John 19:25 (cf. Mark 15:40 = Matt. 27:56). Mary the wife of Clopas must then be identified as the sister of Jesus' mother.
The father of James the Less, the apostle and writer of the epistle (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13), and the husband of Mary (John 19:25). The Hebrew form of this name is Cleopas, or Clopas (q.v.). (2.) The father of Levi, or Matthew (Mark 2:14). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ALPHAEUS.
It is possible if Clopas and Alphaeus are names of the same person or if there was a second marriage. An alternate possibility is suggested by the Arab., which renders John’s reference “Mary the daughter of Clopas” (E. Bishop, “Mary [of] Clopas and Her Father,” ET, 73/11 [1962], 339).
