Joanna (Joh-an´uh)

The wife of Chuza, Herod Antipas’s steward, and one of the women who accompanied Jesus (Luke 8:3). She is listed along with Mary Magdalene and Susanna as one of the women who provided financial assistance (“out of their resources”) for Jesus and the Twelve. In (Luke 24:10), she is one of the women (with Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and others) who, having gone to anoint Jesus’s body, find the tomb empty.