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Authors than the new testament. they depict a growing tension between mary magdalene and jesus's other followers. >> the gospel of thomas like other sources suggests that mary's role among the disciples was deeply resented by some of them, particularly peter. the way peter is described is irate and hot headed and badtempered, somebody that's a difficult person. >> the lost gospel of thomas points to a surprising explanation for this tension between peter and mary. doctor lewis has come to the coptic museum in cairo to see the gospels. >> there's one particular thing at the very end that gives ...

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 to have been looking for influential women in the community who had that credibility woman to woman as it were. ♪ >> luke describes these women

And yes, 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 orson sort. 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 there's another moment where he kisses her. he used to kiss her and then there's this hole, and so we've lost these words. and we don't know where he ki