who were supporting jesus. we have mary magdalene. but we also have joanna, the wife of herod and susanna and many others. so there are a lot of women supporting jesus. which means that they re also following him. there s a name for people that follow jesus and that name is disciple. in any situation where someone s holding the purse strings, they have power. they re in control. so the fact that she s a backer of the jesus movement, it doesn t mean that she gets to shape jesus 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 time?
i think mary and the other women demonstrated their willingness to go even unto death with jesus. they were they were there for him. and they weren t sure that there was going to be life after jesus for them. mary sees his shredded flesh. mary sees the crown pressed against his brow. mary sees his blood pouring over his skin.
the negative depiction of peter is consistent and the idea that mary is not properly heard or respected is also consistent across the sources, which leads many of us to suspect that there might be a grain of historical truth there. but whatever truth they may contain, the nag hammadi texts are not considered as reliable as the new testament gospels written decades earlier. what s striking about matthew, mark, luke and john, is that they re first century documents. early on the christian movement crystallizes around those. as other ones pop up, they re not trusted and not in the sense authoritative like those first four gospels. what the new testament tells us is that mary is at jesus side at the time of his crucifixion. mary magdalene, along with one or two others of jesus female followers, were with him throughout.
maybe we can t rehabilitate judas, but at least we can have some empathy for him. mary magdalene. the woman tradition calls a sinner but who becomes the most devoted follower of jesus. i see mary magdalene as one of the most compelling figures in the entire gospel. a witness to the crucifixion and the resurrection, she is one of the most misunderstood women in the bible. she was the first christian. known as a penitent prostitute, was she, in fact, the wife of jesus? there s an air of scandal about this. the bible tells us little about mary.
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