Was Mary a prostitute?

Question

So much for VIRGIN!

Whoops. I checked Wikipedia and it turns out I mixed up Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary. Oops!

Answer 1

Which Mary? The mother of Jesus? No she wasn't. The other Mary was caught in adultery...the bible doesn't say she was a prostitute.

Answer 2

There might have been more than 2 "Mary"s in the bible. There were certainly more Josephs (as a matter of fact "Jesus"'s name is a variant of Joseph's (like Jim and James).

Men with similar or even the same names distinguished themselves by identifying their parents names and/or the city they lived in. Sometimes a man in those times changed his names when something significant happened (some of the apostles did)

Women's names did not often have these distinctions (or at least the writers of the Bible did not bother to include them). One of the few exceptions being Mary of Magdalen. The mere fact that she had a pseudo-last name is unique and implies that she was VERY important.

It is also very possible that Jesus' wife Mary was NOT called Magdalene. Since women did not get last names in the Bible, people just associate that any Mary being mentioned around the same time might be the same one Magdalene but it could be yet a different Mary.

Answer 3

Don't you read for yourself--Joseph & nobody else had sex with her-- until she gave birth to Jesus?

What happens if a virgin is artificially inseminated, by her husbands semen? According to the Bible is she still a virgin? What do you know about what constitutes a virgin? Do you have all the medical facts or should we all agree with you that Mary was a prositute? You seem to have all the answers? Why not write a book on your startling finds?

--Or should we take the real life dialogue of the Bible and believe in something that maybe you are not capable of imagining?

--Could that not be done from heaven,or do you actual think that God does not have the technology to mechanize that scenario?---by means of the most powerful force in the universe, holy spirit?
--What in the world is so difficult for anybody to understand that--OR do you prefer that God raped her?

--Have you really got a purpose for your slur or what?
--Do you believe in anything out of the ordinary or do discoveries about nature in true science out of the ordinary-- escape your notice or what?

Answer 4

There are 2 Marys in described at the time of Christ. One was his mother, she was not a prostitute. The other was Mary Magdalene, a follower of Christ and she was.

Answer 5

The Hebrew word used for Mary was "almah". The Hebrew dictionary translates almah as meaning either a child of marriageable age or as a childless young woman. From this definition, either translation could be correct, since in either case she may or may not be a virgin. The Christians later translated it to virgin and spawned the virgin birth story from that.

As for Mary of Magdaline, she was not nec a prostitute, but as was the custom of the Christian church back then while putting the bible together, any woman who did not follow a traditional role was claimed to be a prostitute.

Answer 6

1) wrong Mary -
2) it's never been confirmed that Mary of Madgelena was a prostitute -it's just what has been implied and supposed all these years.

Answer 7

there were 2 marys in bible Jesus mom (virgin) mary magedelne (prostitute) and according to some the wife of Jesus

Answer 8

I think it is highly more likely that she was getting some on the side, either for cash or no, then an immaculate conception occured.

Answer 9

And people think that Joseph was actually happy not having you-know-what. What a lie.

Answer 10

Only after she killed Joseph.