Who was Mary Magdalene?

Question

i've heard
-she's a prostitute
-jesus's wife
-a sinner
-a child killer
wat do you think is the truth?

Answer 1

Maybe all of it.Since she's not around to ask,we'll never know.I do have a huge hunch that she was much more than the Christians want to admit,at least in her own eyes.Maybe she fancied Jesus to be in love with her and he let her keep her illusion.I don't know,but I am sure it was more than just a female follower that held a lesser position than the males.Maybe she was a stalker...

Answer 2

Mary the prostitute was a different Mary. Mary Magdalene was from Magdla, Widowed and was a fish merchant. In those days it was not a good thing for a woman to have their own business.
It is not inconceivable for her to have been Jesus' wife.
The 3 Marys, John the younger& Joseph of Armatheia left Judea & went to an area around the South of France. She went Troppo & was thrown of the boat with her daughter. She lived & preached about Jesus in Marsalles where she retired to a Cave & died. She is buried there. Her decendants formed the Fisher Kings of Europe (the Mergovians) Kings of Germany, France & eventually England/Scotland. And the House of Guies-Loraine.
2 of every 3 churches in the South of France are named after her. You will recognise her in a painting by a, Pillar, a vine around the Pillar, an open book & a pen, She is usually holding a child. The Rose window in a Church is her dedication as is the Fluer de lis (Iris flower found on the French Coat of Arms).

Answer 3

All the things you heard are wrong. She was the sister of martha and lazarus. She was loved by Jesus. (John20:1-18)That is all the bible mentions about their relationship. She was at one point posessed by 7 demons and delivered from them by Jesus. (Luke 8:2,3) The main misconception that always makes me laugh is the thought that she was a prostitute. No where in the Bible does it say she was a prostitute. (John 8:1-20) If you read this story about those without sin throwing the first stone, nowhere in any bible does it state she is Mary. My personal belief is that the connection was made to this Samaritan woman to be Mary Magdalene by the Catholics. I was raised catholic grade school and high school and was taught this. I am now Baptist, and see, again my own personal belief, that the catholics made this association to keep people from thinking she was married to Jesus. If you stick to what the Bible teaches, you really cant go wrong. if you start adding your own Ideas or watch the Davinci Code too many times, you might want to pick up a bible and read the verses I laid out.
Peace. Jason

Answer 4

Mary Magdaline was a sinner, she was one of the poor street people that Jesus met and she followed him. While Jesus was at dinner at someones house she came in and washes his feet with her hair. After that she was one of the many people that followed Him every where. There was reports (made up by the Catholic Church) that she was a prostitute, but they were never proven. She was one of the many at the cross when Jesus was crucified, and she was with Jesus' mother Mary when she discovered the tomb was empty. It is rumored that Jesus and Mary Magdaline was married and they had a daughter, but it isn't true, just stories made up. They tried to say that the child she carried was the 'Holy Grail'. But, Jesus and Mary Magdaline never married never had sex, it would have went against what he was on earth to do.

Answer 5

Mary magdalene was a prostitute that Jesus cast seven devils out of, and it changed her live, she followed Jesus along with other women, much the same a his disciples did.
much as we would do if we found the messiah among us.

Answer 6

Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or an adulteress.We're all sinners,so that doesn't signify!Jesus kept her from being stoned to death and she followed him all the way to the cross.

Answer 7

Mary Magdalene is one of several women named Mary who appear in the four canonical Christian gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. She is said in the Gospels to have been relieved of seven demons, to have supported Jesus' ministry financially, and to have witnessed the crucifixion and resurrection. Mary Magdalene was also important to the Gnostics, a category that collectively describes several early Christian sects that placed an emphasis on salvation through knowledge. She appears in several texts that are classified as "gnostic" as a favorite disciple, visionary, and leader. Today, due to publications since the early 1980s culminating with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, many people are convinced that Mary Magdalene and Jesus were married and had children that went on to start a dynastic royal bloodline.

Answer 8

Mary Magdalene was a sinner who confessed her sins to Jesus and became one of Jesus disciples, she was a Palestinian from a city called Magdaia

"And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." that's the verse in the bible

if interested and want further info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene

Answer 9

She was a prostitute (I believe) or she had committed adultery, or both. But her punishment for this sin was to be stoned. Jesus stopped the people from stoning her by saying "He who has not sinned cast the first stone." All of the persecutes threw their stones down to the ground and left. Mary then asked the Lord for forgiveness & repented. She became a loyal Christain after that.

Answer 10

mary magdalene was a follower of jesus, she turned away from sin and began to become a disciple of jesus not one of the 12 but one of his loyal followers, no one knows for sure if she was teh prostitute that was going to be stoned to death. she had been an adulteress.

Answer 11

She was simply forgiven by Jesus. She learned a new way of life and was oh so grateful. Have you had a good, dear friend that was close to you. You had a great respect and love for this person. This was Mary with Jesus.