Some suggest that the apostles (especially Paul) are sexist, but I have doubts about that. If one were to look up famous women in Rome, one would find that most, if not all, of the women recorded were daughters or wives of government officials. There was little room for ordinary women to have any value in Roman history. If a common woman were to have accomplished anything significant in history from that era and culture, it would likely be overlooked. Remember that women discovered Jesus’ tomb, so if the apostles wanted to lie about the resurrection, why did they admit that women were the first witnesses? In first-century Judah, a woman’s word was invalid in court, so eyewitness accounts by women didn’t count because that is how sexist the culture was. Considering the culture, it would make more sense to lie and say the men found the tomb empty, since a woman’s words are considered gossip and unreliable by the men of society. It did the apostles a disservice to even mention that women were involved; this point brings us to Paul.