Junia

Romans 16:7 — "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was." Most early church fathers (including Chrysostom) read Junia as a woman; later transcribers sometimes changed the name to the masculine "Junias," but recent textual scholarship strongly favors the feminine form. The grammar of "outstanding among" is debated — does it mean she was an apostle, or simply well-known to the apostles? The interpretation shapes views on whether women held apostolic leadership in the earliest church.