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Reason for peter and the other disciples apparent dislike of mary. >> so all those tantalizing theories about jesus and mary magdalene being lovers really jumped from this one passage, right? this is the juiciest stuff that weve got. this is ground zero for those conspiracy theories that there was some sort of relationship between jesus and mary magdalene. >> in the early christian communities, for the most part, the missionaries were missionary couples. so it makes sense that jesus himself coul...

Range. >> though known as gospels, they are not in the bible. they are written by different authors than the new testament. they depict a growing tension between mary magdalene and jesus other followers. >> the gospel of thomas, like other sources, suggests that marys role among the disciples was deeply resented by some of them, particularly peter. the way peter is described is irate and hot headed and bad tempered, somebody thats a difficult person. >> the lost gospel of thomas points to a surp...

Contact with them. >> when mary and martha send word to jesus that their brother is ill -- >> ah, stop. >> -- they dont call him lazarus of bethany or lazarus, our brother. they call him in the greek, hone filis, he whom you love. its a very beautiful indication of the intense and affectionate relationship that jesus and lazarus had. >> lord, your good friend is sick. >> when jesus receives the message, he seems to be not immediately motivated to do something about it. >> lazarus sickness will n...

The trauma of the disciples at the arrest and eventual crucifixion of jesus. we get the sense that they believed this movement was over. >> thomas misses the defining event of christian faith. >> hes not there on easter sunday night when jesus first appears to the ten. he misses out on jesus saying, "receive the holy spirit." it strongly suggests that hed not only abandoned hope in jesus, hed abandoned the other

It has to be good to know that when youve been abandoned, theres still people there who care. ♪ >> mary magdalene does something that all of us can do when were faced with suffering, which is she brings her presence. she cant solve jesus suffering, she cant take him from the cross, but she can be present to him. i think a lot of times when were struggling with people who are dying or ill, we can take comfort from mary magdalene and use her as our example, kind of ministry of presence. >> he ma...

Touch him is the big thing, he 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...

Where he kisses her. he used to kiss her -- and then theres this hole. and so weve lost these words. and we dont know where he kissed mary magdalene. >> of all places for there to be a hole, its there. what did it say? did it say that jesus kissed her often on the lips? or is it something rather less racy, rather less potentially sexualized? is it just kissed her often on the forehead, kissed her on the feet. >> so if you happen to be a fan of dan broken "da vinci code," theres a scene where the...

Paint a very different picture of judas and jesus from that in the bible. >> 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...

And if he had children, that means there might be people wandering around today with sort of holy blood in them. >> theres one page in particular im very excited to see. and that is 63, 64. there it is. yeah. there are two moments in the gospel of phillip that really say something interesting about the relationship between jesus and mary magdalene. one is that he, jesus, refers to mary magdalene as his companion or consort. it says explicitly that jesus loved mary magdalene more than the other d...

Disciples as well. >> where were you? >> away -- i went away. >> thomas, so little faith. >> its over. >> perhaps he felt that now that jesus was dead, the group should fragment and break up. perhaps he decided to grieve privately. >> we have seen him. he was here in this room. >> no. >> we have seen him with our own eyes. >> and i saw him, crucified, dead and buried. >> it was hard for him to believe that something good couldve come from the terrible crucifixion. >> unless i see in his hands th...