been wrong all along? >> she might have been a very successful, independent businesswoman who is maybe in her 60s who's worked hard and now in the later years of her life is sort of focused on spirituality and spiritual growth. >> i think that mary magdalene was probably a wealthy woman. i think she was probably elderly or older woman who had the financial means to support jesus and the jesus movement. maybe she doesn't live very long after jesus, and for that reason we just don't hear about her. >> it's an extraordinary notion. but whatever the final truth about her age, what we can be sure of is how jesus reached out to this possessed woman, how she became his closest female follower, and an example to all who would come after her. >> she was the one who had the