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7 Juin 2019
Is Joanna the unnammed sinner?
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Joanna, wife of Chuza (Stained Glass, Sablon Church)
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- Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward.
- And what makes you think that?
- The exact nature of the sins committed by the “unnamed Sinner” is not specified. Only imagination and preconceptions made the exegetes think they were sexual sins. Luke does not specify it. However, in the Gospels, and more particularly in Luke, the rich are more reprimanded than the fornicators. That is why the wife of Herod’s steward, a wealthy woman, known to everybody and who was to lead a mundane life, seems to me by far the best placed to embody the role of the repentant Sinner. Friend of wealth and comfort, we guess that her conversion had to be a real upheaval. She abandons her previous way of life to follow Jesus, and she manifests her conversion in a radical and concrete way by “contributing to his support out of her private means”. These are Luke’s words.
- But Luke also tells us about “her sins, which are many”…
- Yes, but it is rhetoric: we must not see anything here other than a figure of speech, a Semitic hyperbole. Although both are often associated, living in opulence does not necessarily mean living in lust...
- If the forgiven Sinner is Chuza’s wife, why does not Luke say it clearly?
- By discretion, perhaps, because this Joanna is not just anybody. This is a prominent personality, including in the Early Church. And this scene reported by Luke is not only touching, it is particularly humiliating, especially for a person of her condition. We can understand that the evangelist has refrained from naming her, at least in a direct way.
- And Mary of Bethany?
- Mark and Luke report another scene that would have taken place in Bethany, in Judea, two days before Passover. A rich woman enters the house of a certain Simon the Leper. While Jesus is at table, this woman breaks an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard and pours it over his head.
- Is it Mary of Bethany?
- No. This woman is not named either. But this is once again a wealthy person and, in my opinion, it must again be the wife of Chuza. By her social position, she must know that a plot is being prepared and that the life of Jesus is more than ever threatened. So, she came to pay him her last respects while he is still alive...
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