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Ill, we can take comfort from mary magdalene and use her as our example, kind of ministry of presence. >> he may well have been abandoned by his closest male disciples, but mary magdalene is still there. >> thank god they were there to go through it with him. he wasnt alone in the end because of the bravery of these women. i think it must have brought him some comfort at the end. ♪ >> mary magdalenes deep love for jesus will go beyond his death as jesus chooses mary to

>> johns disciples are still around long after the death of jesus. perhaps the biggest difference is that ultimately, in the early jesus movement, theres an appeal to gentiles and as soon as the gentiles are converting to this new movement, we get a much more successful global kind of mission. >> but johns voice can still be heard in a very direct way through one of jesus most famous teachings, the lords prayer itself. >> father, hallowed be your name. >> the words spoken by jesus were directly ...

Cant possibly be a prophet or a messianic figure. hed never allow a person like this to touch him. >> to those present, its a shocking provocation. but whats perhaps even more surprising is how jesus responds. >> stop! ♪ >> the disciples are outraged. when jesus rebukes them, he says that, no, forgiveness is accessible to her, too. she brings ointment she uses on his feet and she cries. and then wipes his feet and dries them with her own hair. sort of a symbol of penitence and forgiveness. >> ...

They are clearly the villains of this text. >> and the author drives the point home in a lurid dream sequence. >> the disciples nightmare is absolutely horrific. its just a terrifying scene. >> they are sacrificing their wives and children. there are men engaged in sexual relations with men. >> we saw a great house with a great altar in it! >> its sort of a panoply of sin and theyre very frightened by this vision that they have. theyre not really sure what it means. >> 12 people whom you say are...

According to the bible, jesus ministry begins near sea of galilee where he gathers his first disciples. >> here on the northwest shore of the sea of galilee is the area where the gospels most often locate activities, miracles, teachings of jesus. >> one of the coastal villages is magdala. was it here that jesus first met mary? >> mary magdalene means mary of magdala. she was from magdala which is just over the hill behind me. >> a woman in distress. what the gospel of luke calls a case of demoni...

>> leave her alone! >> jesus has been preaching this message about the poor and ministering to them and giving away your coat. and now all of a sudden hes going to let this woman pour a huge amount of moneys worth of perfume on him. >> this ointment could have been sold for more than 300 dinari and given to the poor. >> sort of one set of rules for the disciples and a different set of rules for jesus. we can see why this event would upset judas. >> this was a big turning point for judas because ...

Gentiles to convert to judaism in order to become christians, to be followers of christ. >> the epistles make up a third of the new testament. his teachings show how determined he is to reach out to gentiles. >> jesus said go and make disciples of all the nations, and that meant not just the jews. >> if i were james and id heard about paul and what paul was doing, i would be hugely frustrated. paul never met the human jesus. here was james, who was jesus brother, and this upstart was presuming t...

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, which 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. shes the teacher and the revealer to the other disciples, and shes somebody who sp...

>> in the gospels of the new testament, jesus is a mentor. hes gentle to his disciples, shall we say. >> the jesus that we meet in the gospel of judas is a little different from the jesus that we know from the pages of the new testament. hes a much more mysterious character who speaks in riddles that are so difficult to understand that a lot of the time were left scratching our heads when we read it. >> let the strong one among you bring forth the perfect human. >> but the character of judas is ...

Just days before he will die on the cross, jesus takes his followers into jerusalem for the jewish passover. on the night that judas will betray him, jesus invites his disciples to share a last supper. >> he has to have it in secret. because he cant threlet the authorities know where he is. its very important that he finish his last teaching and his last dinner before he is seized and arrested violently. >> mary magdalene, mary the mother of jesus, theyre not there at the last supper, but the re...