MARY, the mother of James and Joses, and Simon and Judas. She is the same who is elsewhere called the wife of Cleophas (John xix. 25), or Alphæus, these two being only different modes of Grecizing the Hebrew חלפא, Chalpai. The common opinion is that she was the sister of the Virgin Mary, an opinion founded on John xix. 25. But as it is not very probable that there would be two sisters in one family of the same name, it seems better to adopt the suggestion of Wiesel (Theol. Studien und Kritiken, 1840, p. 648), that in this passage four persons are enumerated—Mary, Mary's sister (whose name is not given), Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary of Magdala.