Cleophas

Cleophas (UPDV: Clopas) is named once, identified only through his wife — one of the Marys who stood near the cross at Jesus' crucifixion.

Husband of Mary at the Cross

The Johannine passion identifies the women near the cross by their relations: "But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene" (John 19:25). The bracketed [wife] marks an editorial insertion; the underlying genitive only specifies the relationship indirectly. Clopas himself is otherwise absent from the narrative — the figure is preserved only by the patronymic that locates Mary in the company of women keeping watch at the crucifixion.