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Daughters of God
Women Who Followed Jesus
Ellen White does not elaborate on the individuals who followed
Jesus from place to place during His ministry. However, the following
quotes give us a glimpse of some of the women who followed Him
and supported His work with their material resources
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Their [James’ and John’s] mother was a follower of Christ, and
had ministered to Him freely of her substance.—
The Desire of Ages,
548 (1898)
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The record declares, “He went throughout every city and village,
preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and
the twelve were with him, and certain women, which had been healed
of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom
went seven devils, and Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward,
and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their
substance.” Not only Christ, but His disciples also, labored in the cities
and villages; and those who had been in the truth longer than the new
converts, ministered unto Him of their substance.—
The Review and
Herald, February 3, 1891
(Italics supplied.).
Among the believers to whom the commission was given were
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many from the humbler walks of life—men and women who had
learned to love their Lord, and who had determined to follow His
example of self-denying service. To these lowly ones of but limited
talent, as well as to the disciples who had been with the Saviour
during the years of His earthly ministry, was the commission given
to go “into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
These humble followers of Jesus shared with the apostles their Lord’s
comforting assurance, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of
the world.”—
The Review and Herald, March 24, 1910
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The women who had been Christ’s humble followers while He
lived would not leave Him until they saw Him laid in the tomb and a
stone of great weight placed before the door, lest His enemies should
seek to obtain His body. But they need not have feared; for I saw that
the angelic host watched with untold interest in the resting place of
Jesus, earnestly waiting for the command to act their part in liberating
the King of glory from His prison house.—
Early Writings, 180 (1882)
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Mary then hastened with all speed to the disciples, and informed
them that Jesus was not in the sepulcher where they had laid Him.