mary magdalene

     

She mistakes Jesus for a gardener & Jesus tells the bedeviled woman not to touch him

Trivia about mary magdalene

  • The first person to see Jesus after he arose from his tomb was this woman
  • Saint-Saens & Faure were organists at Paris' La Madeleine, the church of this Biblical woman
  • According to John's gospel, she was the first person to notice Jesus' empty tomb
  • The Gnostic Gospels depict this woman as a companion of Jesus & a leader of his disciples
  • She's the saint, though some call her a sinner, from whom Jesus cast out 7 demons
  • After his resurrection, Jesus said to her, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?"
  • In John 20 this woman finds that the boulder in front of Jesus' tomb has been rolled away & that he is gone
  • She was bedeviled, but according to Luke, Jesus took care of that
  • The resurrected Jesus first appeared to this woman "out of whom he had cast seven devils"
  • Her name heads a list of women of Galilee in Luke 8:2
  • Robert says Ariel's flowing red hair in Disney's "Little Mermaid" is an allusion to this Biblical woman
  • In Luke 8, Jesus is followed by Joanna, Susanna & this devoted woman out of whom devils were cast