one of michael s first big hits with wham songs like this, tribute to george michael are pouring in from around the world. elton john posting this on instagram. heart broken at the loss of my beloved friend. let s pause now for our viewers in the united states, finding jesus is next. for our viewers around the world on cnn international. stay with us, more coverage on the death of george michael will continue in a moment. judas iscariot, the man who betrays jesus in the most infamous act of treachery ever. judas is the embodiment of all wickedness.
should only be men. over time what we see is women being pushed from a very central role in church organization and leadership to sort of marginal figures on the sidelines. if the gospel of mary is not a reliable account of her life, could there be another explanation for mary magdalene s disappearance from the story of the early church? when people think of mary magdalene, they often imagine an attractive woman with flowing hair sort of the same age as jesus and undeniably good looking. but she might not have been any of those things. could it be that she was, in fact, far older and that the way we have imagined mary magdalene for more than 1500 years has been wrong all along? she might have been a very successful, independent
explain to him cosmology, his own fate, and the role that judas is going to play in human history. this lost gospel appears to give a new explanation of the betrayal of jesus and exonerate the man reviled throughout history, judas iscariot.
judas, to people because this is someone who knew jesus and somehow didn t make the right choices. i do feel sorry for judas because in many ways he s become such a villain and yet he was a human. if we re humble, if we re honest, we can say i m like judas sometimes as well. whenever we try to paint someone with a singular stroke, we really do an injustice. when we try to paint judas as if he s only evil, we don t see in him what jesus saw in him. and if we see him as a monster, i think we lose the sense of humanity. maybe we can t rehabilitate judas, but at least we can have some empathy for him.
having a brand new text to tell us about mary magdalene and the relationship between mary and jesus is really, really, exciting for us. the gospel picks up her story after jesus has risen from the dead. peter, i have seen the lord. tell us the words of the savior, what you remember. what you know but we do not. you have heard them. what is hidden from you, i will proclaim to you. the key point is that mary is the instructor. she s the teacher and the revealer to the other disciples, and she s somebody who speaks with authority. so much so that it troubles the male disciples. do not weep nor grieve nor be irresolute, for his grace will protect you and will entirely be with you for he has the gospel of mary suggests that mary s relationship with jesus is resented by peter.