Women at the crucifixion

Matthew and Mark, who speak of "many women" present at the crucifixion, mention three individually at the death of Jesus and two at his burial.

Matthew describes the third individual present at the death as the mother of the sons of Zebedee, without naming her.

If the women are three, then there is a single apposition, with Mary of Clopas presented as the sister of Jesus' mother (despite the awkwardness of having two sisters bearing the same name) or else, since Hebrew and Aramaic had no specific word for "cousin", presented as her cousin or her sister-in-law, with Clopas considered the brother of Joseph.

[2] If the last interpretation is chosen, the accounts that the four gospels give of individual women present at the crucifixion are:[3]: 69 Mary Magdalene is mentioned by all gospels apart from Luke, who mentions no individual.

Attempts have been made to consider Mary of Clopas, the mother of James and Josepsh/Joses, and a half-sister or sister-in-law of Mary the mother of Jesus as different descriptions of the same person.