What was the relationship between Mary, wife of Clopas and Mary?
At the cross, John names “his mother’s sister” and “Mary the wife of Clopas.” Many understand them to be the same woman. John 19:25
What the Bible says
John 19:25
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
What Tradition teaches
Depending on how the sentence is read, they are one woman or two (NAB note on John 19:25). Torres Amat reads it as one woman and translates “the sister or relative.” If so, “sister” means relative, as when the Bible calls Jesus’ relatives his “brothers” (Catechism 500).
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