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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 may well have been abandoned by his closest male disciples, but mary magdalene is still there. >> thank god they were there to go thr...

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 disciples. >> why do you love her more than all of us? >> why do i not love you as i do her? >> and theres another moment where he kisses her. he used to kiss her -- and then theres this hole...

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...

Years worth of a day laborers wages. >> people who saw it were scandalized. they were shocked. >> none more so than the groups treasurer, judas. >> why was the ointment wasted in this way? >> 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 dinai and given to the...

Person that the author in the text is most interested in. >> regardless of whether judas was a good or bad character in this text, what most scholars would agree is that the gospel of judas is not really about the figure of judas. the disciples are the ones being criticized by the author. >> the real shock reveal of the gospel of judas is that none of the disciples are good. thats what really probably should have been the headline. none of the disciples are that great. >> the gospel of judas is ...

He was. they could have been crucified as well. >> jesus called the disciples to follow him. and the one thing that they have failed to do, many of the disciples, is to follow jesus at the most crucial moment of all, which is to the cross. but mary has understood this and shes followed him to the cross. she succeeded where many of the male disciples have failed. >> how difficult it must have been for mary, the mother of jesus, mary magdalene, the last they saw jesus probably in the temple teachi...

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 also completely different. >> the other disciples fail to understand jesus, and only judas has the courage to stand up and speak to him. >> i know who you are and whence you have come, and im not worthy to utter the name of the one who ha...

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 they quote from the gospel of phillip, jesus loved mary magdalene more tha...

>> 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 more than the other disciples. and thats all it really tells us. >> but some scholars believe the nag hammadi texts do reflect a genuine tension between mary and peter...

John the baptist had dared to speak truth unto power. and for this, he pays the ultimate price. >> i think he understood that he was a martyr. he was a martyr in the cause of something greater. he was the martyr in the cause of a beautiful kingdom of god on earth, which is what he had preached all his life. >> i see jesus and john as being very similar in terms of their conception of god, in terms of what they wanted people to do, in terms of their call for repentance, in this idea that the worl...