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After the resurrection? >> having a brand new text to 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, what 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 reve...

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...

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 through it with him. he wasnt alone in the end because of the bravery of these women. and i think it must have brought him some comfort at the end. ♪ ♪ >> mary magdalenes deep love for jesus will go beyond his

♪ >> maybe that mary had some kind of mental illness, perhaps it was depression. who knows? but whatever it was, her encounter with jesus was a life-changing one. >> following jesus intervention, she is one of several women who join him as followers. >> 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 id...

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. >> tell mary to leave us. similar to the jewish tradition that women arent supposed to be taught torah. >> another lost gospel, that of phillip, suggests a different reason for peter and the other disciples apparent d...

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. and so weve lost these words. and we dont know...

>> 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 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 i...

The disciples as misguided idiots, people who dont have access to the truth. really jesus treats them as a lost cause. >> in the gospel of judas, the other disciples are praying and venerating in ways that make jesus laughs at them. >> why are you laughing at the thanksgiving? >> 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 pictu...

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 surprising explanation for this tension between peter and mary. dr. nicola denzey lewis has come to the coptic museum in cairo to see these nonbiblical gospels. >> so theres this one pa...

After its discovery, the gospel of judas is finally revealed to the world. >> this is a new gospel. it tells a new story of the last days of jesus christ. its a dialogue between jesus and judas. >> it is the only known copy of a text originally written in the second century a.d. the actual author of the gospel of judas remains unknown. >> its not the gospel according to judas. so all the other gospels that we have are always according to one disciple or the other. but this is not necessarily jud...