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Actually helped support jesus, who provided for him during his mission. >> fishing was big business in first century magdala. so if mary had money, it came from fishing. >> perhaps she owns a fishing business and is using the proceeds from her fishing business to fund the jesus movement. >> we know that jesus was trying to reach out to women. so he's naturally going to have been looking for influential women in the community who had that credibility woman to woman as it were. ♪ >> luke describes these women who were supporting jesus.

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 mother or a wife, but to be out in the wilderness with a itinerant preacher with a name that does not link her to any man is unusual. >> but in the case of mary, it seems her role goes well beyond that of a simple spiritual follower. >> one of the things that mary brought to the jesus movement was she had money, she had resources. she was one of several women who actually helped support jesus, who...

>> but in the case of mary, it seems her role goes well beyond that of a simple spiritual follower. >> one of the things that mary brought to the jesus movement was she had money, she had resources. she was one of several women who actually helped support jesus, who provided for him during his mission. >> fishing was big business in first century magdala. so if mary had money, it came from fishing. >> perhaps she owns a fishing business and is using the proceeds from her fishing business to fund the jesus movement. >> we know that jesus was trying to reach out to women. so he's naturally going...

>> the reason why people think that mary magdalene was a prostitute is because in the sixth century, gregory the great equated mary magdalene with the sinful woman who anointed jesus's feet. since that day, christians there after have thought that mary magdalene was a prostitute. >> i think pope saint gregory the great was not trying to be mean to mary magdalene or women. i think it was probably the result of poor scholarship. >> we not only have a collection of four gospels that circulate together, we have a tradition that says it's okay to blend these stories together. >> it is from this mis...

Successful, independent businesswoman who is maybe in her 60s whos a worked hard and now in the later years of her life is focused on spirituality and spiritual growth. >> i think that mary magdalene was probably a wealthy woman. i think she was probably elderly or older woman who had the financial means to support jesus and the jesus movement. maybe she doesn't live very long after jesus, and for that reason, we just don't hear about her. >> it's an extraordinary notion, but whatever the final truth about her age, what we can be sure of is how jesus reached out to this possessed woman, how sh...