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These texts were written long after the death of the historical Mary Magdalene. [10] [7] They are not regarded by bible scholars as reliable sources of information about her life. [10] [7] [91] Sanders summarizes the scholarly consensus that: ... very, very little in the apocryphal gospels could conceivably go back to the time of Jesus.
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is considered by many to be a pseudepigraphical [1] [2]: 489 passage found in John 7:53–8:11 [3] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives .
Mark 16:9 [45] reports that after his resurrection, Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene. The New Testament also says that Jesus had cast seven demons out of her. For centuries, Mary Magdalene was identified in Western Christianity as an adulteress and repentant prostitute, although nowhere does the New Testament identify her as such. In the ...
[13] The final scene in the Gospel of Mary may also provide evidence that Mary is indeed Mary Magdalene. Levi, in his defense of Mary and her teaching, tells Peter, "Surely the Saviour knows her very well. That is why he loved her more than us." [14] In the Gospel of Philip, a similar statement is made about Mary Magdalene. [11]
It relates how Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus and found it empty. Jesus appears to her and speaks of his resurrection and dispatches Mary to tell the news to the disciples. Jesus then appears to his disciples. The events related in John 20 are described somewhat differently in Matthew 28, Mark 16, and Luke 24.
Sometimes the woman taken in adultery in the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:11) is mistakenly presumed to be Mary Magdalene, owing to the other incorrect association of Mary Magdalene with the 'sinful' woman in Luke 7. However, the woman accused of adultery is unnamed, and Mary Magdalene appears nowhere in the Gospel of John until chapter 20 ...
56: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: 55: Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him. 56: Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James
In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as: And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 27:61.