Clopas

Who

Named as husband of Mary of Clopas (John 19:25).

Generated from the genealogies; a fuller description is still to be written.

Key verses

1. John 19:25

   But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Where the Bible names him

Family

Wife

• MCMary of ClopasJohn 19:25

Discussed by

Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 28).

• Bede on Mark 15:38–41 (2)Catena Aurea on Mark

  He means by James the Less, the son of Alphaeus, who was also called the brother of our Lord, because he was the son of Mary, our Lord’s mother’s sister, whom John mentions, saying, “Now there stood by the cross of…

• Theophylact of Ohrid on John 19:24–27Catena Aurea on John

  While the soldiers were doing their cruel work, He was thinking anxiously of His mother: These things therefore the soldiers did. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the…

• Ambrose of Milan on John 19:24–27Catena Aurea on John

  Mary the mother of our Lord stood before the cross of her Son. None of the Evangelists hath told me this except John. The others have related how that at our Lord’s Passion the earth quaked, the heaven was overspread…

• Jerome on John 19:24–27Catena Aurea on John

  The Mary which in Mark and Matthew is called the mother of James and Joses, was the wife of Alpheus, and sister of Mary the mother of our Lord: which Mary John here designates of Cleophas, either from her father, or…

• John Chrysostom on John 19:24–27Catena Aurea on John

  Observe how the weaker sex is the stronger; standing by the cross when the disciples fly.

• Augustine of Hippo on John 19:24–27Catena Aurea on John

  If Matthew and Mark had not mentioned by name Mary Magdalen, we should have thought that there were two parties, one of which stood far off, and the other near. But how must we account for the same Mary Magdalen and…

• John Chrysostom on John 19:24–27 (2)Catena Aurea on John

  Though there were other women by, He makes no mention of any of them, but only of His mother, to shew us that we should specially honour our mothers. Our parents indeed, if they actually oppose the truth, are not…

• Bede on John 19:24–27Catena Aurea on John

  By the disciple whom Jesus loved, the Evangelist means himself; not that the others were not loved, but he was loved more intimately on account of his estate of chastity; for a Virgin our Lord called him, and a…