Is Mary Magdalen also the sister of Martha and Lazarus is is that a different Mary?

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If you have scripture to back up your answer that would be great Thanks

Answer 1

Yes.

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Answer 2

Who? Beyond statements of her brother and sister and their close relationship with Jesus, nothing is known. Note that the incident in Mark 14 is sometimes THOUGHT to be Mary MAGDALENE or Mary of Bethany, but the person is not named. John 12:3 identifies Martha as serving. It may have been at the home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus in Bethany, or the home of Simon as the other evangelists mention. Mark 14 indicates the home of "Simon the leper." John 12 identifies Mary as anointing Jesus, but Mark makes no such identification and John does not identify the location. Luke 7 includes a DIFFERENT anointing and, again, the actor is not named and is the subject of many differing opinions. There are several possible explanations for the texts identified as the eve of the "Triumphal Entry," among them: There were 2 separate events Simon was another member of the household of Mary What? She poured an expensive jar of ointment on Jesus, worth several months' wages. Why? Love, though Jesus states it prepared his body for its burial... which was to take place in just a few days. Where? Bethany... further discussion on this is above.

Answer 3

I believe its a different Mary. Offhand I don't know exact scripture to back it up, but notice when in the Gospels it talked about Mary, Martha and Lazarus, it always said just that, but when Mary Magdalene is mentioned, it always says Mary of Magdalene or Mary Magdalene. I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Jesus expelled seven demons from Mary Magdalene, reason enough for her to put faith in him as the Messiah and for her to back up such faith with outstanding works of devotion and service.
Mary’s anointing of Jesus, as reported by Matthew, Mark, and John, should not be confused with the anointing mentioned in Luke 7:36-50. The two events have some similarities, yet there are differences. The earlier event, reported by Luke, took place in the northern district of Galilee; the later, in the south at Bethany in Judea. The earlier was in the home of a Pharisee; the later, in that of Simon the leper. The earlier anointing was by an unnamed woman publicly known to be “a sinner,” probably a prostitute; the later was by Martha’s sister Mary. There was also more than a year’s difference in time between the two event.

Answer 5

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Is Mary Magdalen also the sister of Martha and Lazarus is is that a different Mary?
If you have scripture to back up your answer that would be great Thanks

Answer 6

They are two different Marys.

People did not have surnames back then, and Mary was a very common name. There are several different Marys in the Bible, and each one of them is described in relationship to others. In Mary Magdalene's case, it is not that Magdalene is her last name -- it's citing the fact that she comes from Magdala.

So you have:

Mary, the mother of Jesus (Matthew 1:18, etc.)

Mary Magdalene (Luke 8:2, etc.)

Mary, the mother of James and Joses (Matthew 27:56), who is probably also "the other Mary" of Matthew 28:1, etc.

Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus (Luke 10. etc.)

Mary, the wife of Clopas (John 19:25), who might also be "the other Mary"

and Mary, the mother of John called Mark (Acts 12:12).

Answer 7

Mary was a very common name back then, but Mary Magdalen isn't the same Mary from Lazarus, Martha and Mary. Many people confuse them because the Bible isn't very clean on the subject. But you can remember that Mary Magdalen was from Galilee and Lazarus' Mary was from Bethany.

Answer 8

Different. There are a half dozen "Marys" in the gospels and elements of their stories overlap. But there is no scriptural proof that any of them were the same Mary. The only thing we can verify about Mary Magdalen is that seven devils were driven out of her and that she was the first to discover the resurrection, NOT that she was a prostitute, NOT that she was considered a sinner, and NOT that she might have washed Jesus' feet (or head). Sloppy apologists have conflated different stories to enhance her character.

Read each account of the anointing of Jesus, noting what and who is and is not mentioned in each. They do not match. John says Martha's "Mary" (no "Magdalen") anointed Jesus. The other gospels don't mention a name. Some have the woman anointing his head, some his feet. Either these are different events or the details didn't matter to the evangelists (including the woman's identity).

Answer 9

Mary Magdalene was the one who cleansed Jesus' feet and wiped them dry with her hair when she first met Jesus.
John11:1-3 says:
Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother was Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair

Answer 10

Mary, Martha, and Lazarus are represented by St. John as living at Bethania, but St. Luke would seem to imply that they were, at least at one time, living in Galilee; he does not mention the name of the town, but it may have been Magdala, and we should thus, supposing Mary of Bethania and Mary Magdalene to be the same person, understand the appellative "Magdalene". The words of St. John (11:1) seem to imply a change of residence for the family. It is possible, too, that St. Luke has displaced the incident referred to in Chapter 10. The likeness between the pictures of Martha presented by Luke and John is very remarkable. The familiar intercourse between the Saviour of the world and the humble family which St. Luke depicts is dwelt on by St. John when he tells us that "Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus" (11:5).

Tradition as early as the 3rd century identifies Mary Magdalene with Mary of Bethany and with the woman sinner who anointed Jesus' feet[4]:

"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." Though the woman remains unnamed, she has been identified with Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and the resurrected Lazarus (Luke 10:38–42 and John 11:1–2), as John 11:1–2 says:

1 Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and Martha her sister. 2 (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.