What the Hell is Mary Magadalene doing in Jesus Tomb?

Question

So Jesus had a "partner" and descendants just like Da Vinci Code speculated.

Statistically speaking is being reported that there is from 1 in 100 chance or 1 in1000 chance that the tomb is not that of Jesus the Trouble maker. Do you know how difficult it is to get a lottery number match of 3 digits?

Answer 1

Someone who answered before me said "I think that it is a hoax. It doesn't fit Christian beliefs."
Not fitting Christian beliefs does not automatically mean a hoax.
IF Jesus existed, AND is in the tomb, WITH Mary, well, she was there to be laid to rest, like the others..

Answer 2

First, remember that the names on those coffins are very common Jewish names. Odds are this tomb never belonged to the family of *THE* Jesus... I mean, he was from Galilee and his dad hailed out of Bethlehem... why should his family have a tomb on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem?

Second : the only good point in DVC is that Jesus, as a devout Jew of good family was almost certainly married at some point. Whether that was to Mary Magdalene or anybody else, we'll probably never know. But if she was his wife, that would explain her privileged status with him (I mean, at the very least, she was the first person to see him after he came back).

Answer 3

Perhaps.

Except Mary M being in Jesus' tomb with their son would kinda prove the Da Vinci code false, eh?

Answer 4

No, look a little further into the matter and find out what the archaeologist in charge of the excavation (which occurred 27 year ago btw; the only reason it's getting hype now is because James Cameron made a 'documentary' on it) said. He said there's no way it's Jesus and Company.

Answer 5

I think that it is a hoax. It doesn't fit Christian beliefs.
Mary Magdalene was thought to have been a prostitute before being saved, but the bible never mentions this about her, and it was a story created by the Roman Catholic church; however, it conveys a good message about redemption.

Answer 6

No,he didn't.Look,here's how silly the film's theory is.

The most popular names in that era for males were:
Simon
Joseph
Eleazar
Judah
John
Jesus
Hananiah
Jonathan
Matthew
Manaen/Menahem
The most popular female names for that era were:
Mary/Mariamne
Salome
Shelamzion
Martha

In that era,21% of Jewish women were named Mary.The other names found in the tomb were extremely popular.

There is no other DNA sample of Jesus or His family to compare the remains with!Allthe DNA proves,is that the ones in the tomb were related!

Jesus' family were not even from Jerusalem.Jospeh's home he grew up in was in Bethlehem,and Jesus and his family lived in Galilee.Why would they be buried in Jerusalem,where they had no connection?

There is absolutely no evidence supporting the idea that Jesus was married or had a child,biblical or non-biblical.

The ossuaries that mention Mary,do not have any other descriptive features.They simply say 'Mary'.

The 'James son of Joseph,brother of Jesus' ossuary,which the makers of this film used to try and back up their claim,has been proven to be a forgery.

The main scholar who is the source for the story does not think it is Jesus' tomb.

Says Bar-Ilan University Professor Amos Kloner,"..those were the most common names found among Jews in the first centuries BCE and CE"

Prof. Amos Kloner, the Jerusalem District archeologist who officially oversaw the work at the tomb in 1980 and has published detailed findings on its contents, on Saturday night dismissed the claims. "It makes a great story for a TV film," he told The Jerusalem Post. "But it's impossible. It's nonsense." “"They just want to get money for it,"
Prof. Kloner said there was no way the tomb housed the Holy Family.
The senior Israeli archaeologist who thoroughly researched the tombs after their discovery, and at the time deciphered the inscriptions, cast serious doubt on it.
"It is just not possible that a family who came from Galilee, as the New Testament tells us of Joseph and Mary, would be buried over several generations in Jerusalem."

Kloner said the names found on the ossuaries were common, and the fact that such apparently resonant names had been found together was of no significance. He added that "Jesus son of Joseph" inscriptions had been found on several other ossuaries over the years."There is no likelihood that Jesus and his relatives had a family tomb," Kloner said. "They were a Galilee family with no ties in Jerusalem. The Talpiot tomb belonged to a middle-class family from the 1st century CE."

"Archeological evidence shows that chances of these being the actual
burials of the Holy Family are almost nil," said Motti Neiger, a spokesman for the
Antiquities Authority.


"Simcha has no credibility whatsoever," says Joe Zias, who was the curator for anthropology and archeology at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem from 1972 to 1997 and personally numbered the Talpiot ossuaries. "He's pimping off the Bible … He got this guy Cameron, who made 'Titanic' or something like that—what does this guy know about archeology? I am an archeologist, but if I were to write a book about brain surgery, you would say, 'Who is this guy?' People want signs and wonders. Projects like these make a mockery of the archeological profession."

Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem who was interviewed in the documentary, said the film's hypothesis holds little weight. "How possible is it?" he said. "On a scale of one through 10 - 10 being completely possible , it's probably a one, maybe a one and a half."


The official report written by Prof. Kloner found nothing remarkable in the discovery. The cave, it said, was probably in use by three or four generations of Jews from the beginning of the Common Era. It was disturbed in antiquity, and vandalized.

Answer 7

The people who are behind this story just want to make a lot of money. People are gullible. The bigger the lie the better.

Answer 8

The writers of the Divinci Code admitted that the movie was all fictional! Will someone PLEASE get that through your thick skulls?!! Additionally, these lyres who said they found the "family" tomb of Jesus with his bone still in the coffins are totally wacked out!! In biblical times the Jews did not bury their dead in coffins! They anointed them with special herbs and oils, wrapped them in cloth, and laid them on slabs of rock in the tombs! Get your information together before you start trusting every lying wacked out thing (not even people) about what they say they've found out about Jesus! Anything outside of God's word as it referrers to Jesus is a lie!!

Answer 9

No he saved her from her sins. Why do you ask such questions when you are only going to accept your own beliefs on something thats fiction the Da Vinci Code.


Go read your Bible

Answer 10

The Gospel of Philip indeed describes Mary M. as the "one who was called his companion", i.e. the companion or wife of Jesus. Jesus "loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth....The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to him, 'Why do you love her more than all of us?'..."