[SuzyQue]

Note that Christ chose no female disciples, not even his Mom.

Do we really know that? 

[InterestedQuestioner]

"Do we really know that?"

There were women disciples yes, but Christ did not appoint any women as Apostles. Interestingly, there is a reference to a "Junia" in Romans 16: 7 that appears to indicate that this person was an apostle. While the women's ordination groups insist this must have been a woman, and use it as perhaps the most central part of their historical case, the claim itself is disputed, as many of the early texts are apparently ambiguous on this point. There is also a deaconess by the name of Phoebe mentioned in the New Testament.