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I dont need a particular type of shoes to fight. >> okay. >> i want to fight. taking my shoes not going to stop me fighting. thats really not -- >> so what youre saying later on were going to fight, is that what youre saying? >> no. >> okay. >> that what we call a class a jackass. coming up -- >> this is good. well have this guy documented as insane gangster disciple before the end of the day. >> the investigators find what theyre looking for. and inmates face the uncertainty of a major poli...

Everett went very well. hes admitted to the fact that hes been insane gangsta disciple since he was 14 years old. however he said it wasnt really about gangs. it was about unity. they delude themselves into thinking its to huggy, feely type of gang when its not. >> the manifesto also included a key to the gangs secret codes. >> we have shampoo. thats code for weed. conditioner, heroin. we use these things to control contraband. if it says that you used my shampoo in the shower, and he signs it 0...

>> i meat the point, we are not against government. we are for appropriate government. i am a jack kept disciple. >> how would he be? >> he would not be happy. >> it wasnt a phony thing. a conservative and a friend. thats how it worked. it wasnt phony. i hate the phrase reaching out. it sounds phony. its articulating the message that doesnt scare the women. i go back to the reagan thing. young people liked reagan. he was pro life. >> abortion rights fell. >> the fact is he was more pragmatic. be...

Shedding more light on how provocative and interesting and insightful that 2nd century was, with all the diversity of thoughts so that even a figure like judas can be linked to the good news of jesus. >> so, too, can mary magdalene. for centuries mistakenly depicted as a repentant prostitute, she is the chief apostle in her own gnostic gospel and much more than that to jesus in the gnostic gospel of philip. >> in the gospel of philip, it is said that jesus loved mary magdalene more than all the ...

>> whatever the truth of the bethlehem story, the star of the tale was jesus, not mary, whom the gospels mention just 13 times and not always by name. >> shes in there by virtue of her relationship to jesus, both as his mother and also, as luke portrays her, as a disciple of jesus. but the gospel writers were not interested that much in her story. >> so early christians and later scholars have had to fill in the blanks. the most popular tradition says she died at this church on mount zion, overl...

Profitable and tough, just as it is today. >> if she grew up in a fishing village, im putting my money on the fact that somehow, some way, she was involved in that trade, or helping somebody in that trade. and so, i would say that she was a working girl. >> while the virgin marys home town of nazareth has become a shrine to her memory, mary magdalenes home is a neglected ruin. >> theres not much of magdala left. in fact, theres hardly anything left. there are the ruins of a sixth century byzanti...

>> weve come to appreciate shes a figure thats like the church -- mother church -- putting her arms around all of us. and we do need a mother. we want a woman that loves us and cares for us deeply. >> whatever the merits of her elevation, it was certainly a better fate than the one that befell mary of magdalene. not a harlot, scholars say, but a cherished disciple. >> as i think of the historical mary magdalene, i think of a woman who is a very strong woman, who must have been a very vocal kind ...

Jews in jerusalem at the time would have even known about this sect of jewish christians, people who believed that jesus was the messiah. >> he would have looked the same as everybody else. he dressed the same as everybody else. he had some perhaps some disciples, some people following behind him. when you think of the temple, its a place where theres a lot of activity, a lot of coming and going. no pews. then he would not necessarily have stood out to everybody. >> and his execution might have ...

Behind him. when you think of the temple, its a place where theres a lot of activity, a lot of coming and going. no pews. then he would not necessarily have stood out to everybody. >> and his execution might have been equally obscure. >> the romans executed hundreds of thousands of people in the holy land in the 1st century bc and a.d., and another person being crucified, its almost part of everyday activity. >> in fact, the jesus story looked to be over even before he died. after all, jesus had...

But i think he certainly had a last supper, and he may well have anticipated that he was going to be killed soon thereafter. >> according to the gospels, thats exactly what happened. betrayed among the olive trees in garden of gethsemane by his own disciple, judas iscariot. throughout christian history, judas has been made the arch villain in jesus death. yet, just what did this trusted disciple betray? >> its possible that jesus taught the disciples privately that when the kingdom comes, you wi...