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  Study 11 - Luke 8: 1 - 56 Faith and faithfulness Part 2 What experience have you ever had of what were clearly demonic powers? It is thought that the Joanna of 8: 3 and the Junia of Rom 16: 7 may be different versions of the name of the same person. (It should be Junia, a woman’s name; Junias is a man’s name and a mistranslation) If so, we may presume Joanna/Junia was an apostle because she fulfilled the requirements of Acts 1: 21, 22, even though being a woman meant she could not be one of the twelve. Luke is careful not to forget the women! Neither should we! We noted in the last study that one word in the Greek means both ‘faith’ and ‘faithfulness’. 1) How do we use these words? What is the difference in meaning in our common usage of them? 2) The central passage of these chapters is the familiar parable of the sower (8:1–8). Which meaning, faith or faithfulness, is it encouraging us to think of as the most important? A parable is designed to be abou