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Gangrape and murder in UP: Woman falls prey to temple priest in Badaun A brutal gang-rape and murder of a middle aged woman in a UP temple took place on Sunday; FIR registered against temple priest and 2 disciples on Tuesday.   |  6 Jan 2021 8:03 AM GMT Badaun: In a shocking repetition of Indias horrific Nirbhaya gang-rape, a middle aged woman was gang-raped and brutally killed at Uttar Pradeshs Badaun. As per reports, the three accused in the case, the temple priest and his two disciples, s...

This time? >> i think i will. i know easter is the easiest date to preach because all of us along for hope. im going to try bill to draw that dramatic difference between what was on in good friday and would have been on easter sunday. you know even the disciples of thought it was all over on good friday. they thought they had put their trust and their faith in a man who had let them down, who had died in the most gruesome way possible with nobody left behind. and from that to the radiance and th...

>> could this extraordinary lost gospel show light on the disappearance of mary after the resurrection? >> having a new text about 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 do you remember? what do you know that we do not? what have you heard? >> what is hidden from you i will proclaim to you. >> mary is the instructor, th...

No reliable evidence of a romantic relationship between mary and jesus. but these alternative accounts do support the bibles story that jesus and mary were very close. >> the idea that the gospels would not mention a wife if there was one doesnt make any sense. most likely, mary was a close friend of jesus and a follower, but not his wife. >> what the gospel of phillip clearly says is that there is some kind of a favored relationship between mary magdalene and jesus. that jesus does care for her...

Relationship between mary magdalene and jesus and the other disciples and thats the last folio which is in folio 51. so can we see that? there it is. beautiful. so when saying 114, we see a little argument, a little dispute, a little scene unfolding. >> the gospel of thomas tells of an angry episode when peter vents his resentment against mary. >> tell mary to leave us because shes a woman and not worthy of life, spiritual life. similar to the jewish tradition that women arent supposed to be tau...

>> one of the things about jesus is that he has very inclusive group of disciples. its a very open kind of movement and included women who a lot of the time might have felt themselves somewhat marginalized. being with jesus gave them a sense of identity and self-worth in a way that they often didnt find in ordinary society. >> mary magdalene seems atypical for a jewish woman of her time. most jewish women in the galilee would have been in some kind of domestic setting, either as a daughter or a ...

Really jesus treats them as a lost cause. >> in the gospel of judas, the other disciples are praying and venerating in ways that makes jesus laugh at them. >> why are you laughing at our thanks giving? >> and they seem to be leading people astray. >> it is what is right. >> i am not laughing at you! >> nor are you doing this by your will, but rather it is by this that your god will be praised. >> the gospel of judas pictures the disciples as clueless. >> this image of the disciples and of judas ...

According to the bible, jesus ministry begins near the 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 de...

Dr. nicola denzey lewis has come to the british library, where there is a rare copy of an ancient book, the acts of thomas. >> this text is written in syriac, and thats significant because its very closely related to aramaic, and aramaic is the language which jesus spoke with his disciples, so this is a really, really fabulous piece to the puzzle in uncovering a little more information than we had before about what thomas was up to. and the story goes that after jesus death, the disciples are ge...