relationship between mary and jesus and the young disciples and it says can we see that one? all right. there it is. beautiful. so we see a little argument a little, dispute, a little scene unfolding. the gospel of thomas tells of an angry episode when peter vents his resentment against mary. tell mary to leave us because she is a woman and not worthy of life, spiritual life. similar to the jewish tradition that women aren t supposed to be taught tora. another lost gospel, that of phillip suggests a different reason for peter and the other
luke dedescribes these women. we have mary magdelene and many others so there s a lot of women supporting jesus which means they re also following him. there s a name for those that follow jesus and that name is disciples. in any situation where someone is holding the purse strings they have power. they re in control. so the fact that she is a backer of the jesus movement, it doesn t mean she gets to shape jesus s teaching but it gives her access to jesus. mary follows jesus during the many months that he preaches in galilee. but what happened during that
the negative depiction of peter is consistent and the idea that mary was not properly heard or respected is also consistent which leads many of us to suspect there might be a grain of historical truth there. but whatever truths they macon tama may contain they re not considered as reliable as the new testament gospels writt decades earlier. what is striking about matthew, mark, luke, and john is they re first century documents. early on the christian movement crystallizes around those and as other ones pop up they re not trusted and they re not in the sense authoratative like the first four gospels. what the new testament tells us is that mary is at jesus s side at the time of his crucifixion. mary along with one or two others of jesus s female
and air traffic control and requiring better onboard equipment. remember after the disappearance of moo lash yeah 370, one of the issues is that indonesian radar, which is allegedly what they tracked mh-37 oh as it left the air space and up and around and into the indian ocean, articles and reports after that disappearance indicated indonesia as much as two-thirds of the radar was not functional anytime. and they turn it off at night. that s really unacceptable in a modern aviation nation. no question, real tragedy. 54 people onboard. mary, thank you for that. still to come here, the civil rights movement mourning the loss of an iconic leader. next, we will remember the extraordinary life of julian bond.
light on christianity. there has been unearthed what might be the hometown of mary magdeline and a synagogue of where jesus may have preached. on the sea of galilee. volunteers pray. here in the ruins of an ancient town, each swing of the pick ax an effort to uncover what life was like some 2,000 years ago. historians believe jesus may have once walked these cobbled streets. this may have been home to one of the most important figures of the bible, the first reported witness of the resurrection. this is a holy site. i m sure of that. reporter: six years ago a father purchased the land to build a christian retreat. law required him to excavate and