who were supporting jesus. we have mary magdalene. but we also have joanna, the wife of herod and susanna and many others. so there are a lot of women supporting jesus. which means that they re also following him. there s a name for people that follow jesus and that name is disciple. in any situation where someone s holding the purse strings, they have power. they re in control. so the fact that she s a backer of the jesus movement, it doesn t mean that she gets to shape jesus teaching, but it gives her access to jesus. mary follows jesus during the many months that he preaches in galilee, but what happened during that time?