chuza Summary and Overview

properly Chu'zas (the seer), the house-steward of Herod Antipas. #Lu 8:3|

CHU'ZA (a seer ?), the steward of Herod Antipas. His wife, Joanna, was one of the women who ministered to Jesus in life and in death. Luke 8:3; 24:10.

Herod's house steward, husband of Joanna, who ministered to the Lord of her substance (Luke 8:3). Subsequently, she was one of the women who, on the morning of the resurrection, brought spices to complete the Lord's burial (Luke 24:10), and who came and told the eleven and all the rest of His being no longer in the tomb, and of their having seen angels. We read in Matthew 14:1, "Herod heard of the fame of Jesus, and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist, who is risen from the dead." The reason does not in Matthew appear why Herod addressed his servants about Christ; but we infer it from Luke's incidental mention of Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, as among the women ministering to Christ. Also from the margin of Acts 13:1, where "Manaen, Herod's foster brother," appears among the Christian "prophets." How naturally, since Christ had followers among Herod's household, did that prince turn to his servants for information about Christ. The undesigned coincidence is a proof of the gospel veracity.