Since Jesus' life was spent primarily among the Jewish community, and since by his day the Jewish community didn't practice polygamy, it's unlikely that he ever had such an encounter.

Also, trying to apply the word "feminist" to Jesus would be anachronistic. Suffice to say that I believe Jesus saw the innate value of all people, and since women tended to be lower in the social order than men in his day, and since Jesus tended toward those who were at the lower end of the spectrum, I suspect he would have been especially sympathetic to women. But a "feminist?" He wouldn't have understood what it meant, and I'm not sure it can be applied.

Next Question.

Who can be considered to be the origional feminists?

"Feminist" means an advocate for women's rights, in particular equal rights to those of men. The modern notion of rights didn't exist in Jesus' day, so I'm not sure calling anyone in classical history a feminist would be fair, even the strong female figures like Cleopatra or Aspasia (the influential mistress of Athenian orator and politician Pericles). It's projecting modern ideas and ideals on to a time when they really didn't exist in modern form.

Jesus certainly seems to have had a rather different relationship with, and respect for, the women in his life and that he encountered than other men of the time but I think calling him a feminist might be stretching.

The original feminists, to my mind, would be those women (and their supporters) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (perhaps earlier, since modern history isn't my strong suit) who sought to have the modern idea(l)s about the rights of "man" applied equally to both sexes. While feminism may draw upon older sources (eg. the aforementioned classical figures, medieval and renaissance women of importance) that doesn't make those older sources feminists.

Mendalla

Thanks Steve asnd Mendalla. Makes sense. No further elaboration necessary as far as I am concerned.

In ancient Germanic and Celtic tribal cultures, there was a strict division of roles. The wife was the "keeper of the keys". She was responsible for managing the household, for the rearing of young children of both sexes, and female children of all ages. Women were, according to their primal biological role, the bearers and nurturers of family and tribe.

Although this was far from feminism in the modern sense of the word, women were not chattel owned by men.