Beata Joana

Joanna was the wife of Chuza, administrator of King Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. She was one of the women who helped provide for Jesus and the Apostles and was one of three women who discovered Jesus' empty tomb on Easter morning.

Joanna, the wife of Cuza, is a woman mentioned in the Gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples on their travels . She is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke who accompanied Jesus and the twelve apostles and as a witness to Jesus' resurrection.

Her husband was Chuza, who managed the household of Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee.

Joan in the Gospels

Joan is identified as “the wife of Chuza,” administrator of Herod Antipas, when she is listed as one of the women “cured of evil spirits and infirmities” who accompanied Jesus and the Apostles, and “provided for Him of their own support” in Luke 8.2-3.

2. The Twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been delivered from evil spirits and healed of illnesses: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out;

3. Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's attorney; Susana and many others, who assisted him with their possessions.

In Luke 24:10, Joan is mentioned by name, along with Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas, as among the women who brought spices to Jesus' tomb and found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty.

10. They were Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary, mother of James; Her other friends reported the same thing to the apostles.

The accounts in the other synoptic Gospels do not mention Joan as one of the group of women who observed Jesus' burial and witnessed His Resurrection.