(2) Who is the only NT woman that was both an apostle (and companion of Paul) and one of Jesus' disciples? The answer is the same as that to another trivia question: How did Jesus support Himself financially during His public ministry? The answer is found in Luke 8:2-3. His female disciples who traveled with Him supported Him financially. These women included Joanna, the Hebrew form of the Greek name Junia, who is the only female apostle and was in prison with Paul:
"Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among[
a] the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was (Romans 16:7)."
The KJV ducks the implication that women could be apostles by translating the Greek as "Junias," a man's name. But Junia was a common Greco-Roman female name and Junias is virtually unprecedented as a man's name in the ancient world! Thus, in the early Church Fathers, Junia is widely acknowledged as a female apostle. This was later deemed too awkward dur to the prohibition of leadership roles for women; so the name was changed to Junias. If women can be apostles, why can't they be popes?