i think mary and the other women demonstrated their willingness to go even unto death with jesus. they were there for him. and they weren t sure that there was going to be life after jesus for them. mary sees his flesh, the crown pressed against his brow. mary sees his blood pouring over his skin. she hears him cry. she feels his agony and somehow knows that this is all for love.
once mary s finished instructing, a full scale argument breaks out between mary and peter. did he prefer her to us? what do you think? that i made this up in my heart, that i am lying about the savior? this is clearly a fight between the disciples for supremacy, for who is going to be the chief disciple and who properly carries on jesus teachings and missions. peter might have felt that it was his rightful role to be the leader and it might very well have had to do with the fact that he was a man than any other factor. the conclusion of this gospel is that mary ithe imy disciple, more than peter, and that she should be teaching the she should be preaching like the men. and at the end of the gospel of mary she goes out and preaches with the rest of them.
mary s deep love for jesus will go beyond his death as jesus chooses mary to be witness to his resurrection. it s the stunning moment where she hears her name spoken by the one she loves and immediately she recognizes this is jesus. my new beer, stella artois, hey cois finished. the people will love it. the party s starting!
us a character who shows that everybody can make it into the kingdom of heaven. all four of the gospels tell a toir in which a woman comes to jesus and anoints his feet with expensive perfume. not one gospel identifies that woman as mary magdelene. how then did mary s name come to be wrongly associated with this famous episode from the new testament? the answer it seems can be found five centuries later with this man. pope gregory the great. the reason why people think that mary was a prostitute is because in the 6th century gregory the great gave a homily in which he equated mary
be. sir, if you have carried him away tell me where you have laid him. mary. it s the stunning moment when she hears her name spoken by the one she loves and immediately she recognizes this is jesus. my rabbi, my lord. when she finds him, it s hard to imagine how joyful that must have been. especially on the heels of such devastation. it s this incredibly touching intimate moment of recognition between these two people, teacher and the student. do not hold on to me. the first thing she wants to do is to hug the person she followed and loved and jesus has to tell her, i m not ready yet