Mary Magdalene in the New Testament
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Mary Magdalene in the New Testament
In Luke 8:2 she is mentioned as one of the women who "ministered to
Him [Jesus] of their substance" (in other words, they provided Jesus
with money or supplies). The book also tells the story of an exorcism
on Mary that cast out seven demons. These women, who earlier "had been
healed of evil spirits and infirmities," later accompanied Jesus on
his last journey to Jerusalem (Matthew 27:55; Mark 15:41; Luke 23:55)
and were witnesses to the Crucifixion. Mary remained there until the
body was taken down and laid in a tomb prepared for Joseph of
Arimathea. In the early dawn of the first day of the week Mary
Magdalene, Salome, and Mary the mother of James, (Matthew 28:1; Mark
16:2; Gospel of Peter 12), came to the sepulchre with sweet spices to
anoint the body. They found the sepulchre empty but saw the "vision of
angels" (Matthew 28:5). As the first witness to the empty tomb, Mary
Magdalene went to tell Peter and John, (John 20:1-2), (gaining her the
epithet "apostle to the apostles") and again immediately returned to
the sepulchre. She remained there weeping at the door of the tomb.
According to John she was the first witness of the Resurrection
appearances of Jesus, though at first she did not recognise him. When
he said her name she was recalled to consciousness, and cried,
Rabboni. She wanted to cling to him, but he forbade her: John 20:17
"Jesus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended
to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, "I am ascending
to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God."'"
This is the last entry in the canonical Gospels regarding Mary of
Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem. She is probably included in
the group of women who joined the Apostles in the Upper Room in
Jerusalem after Jesus' ascension (Acts 1:14)
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