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Mary Magdalen |
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“I have seen the Lord.” |
Mary
Magdalen
BENSON, Ambrosius
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Mary Magdalene’s presentation in scripture is a compelling one: She is called by name, identified by place and described as a leader of a number of women who supported the work of Jesus. Scripture focuses on the central reality of Mary Magdalene’s ministry. When the others run away from the crucifixion, when the crowds who had welcomed Him to Jerusalem within the week had trickled away from the site of the cross afraid of the authority of the Romans and the disapproval of the high priests as well, it is Mary Magdalene and John who stay with Mary the mother of Jesus at the foot of the cross, while the death of Jesus brings a brilliant three years to a slow and inglorious end. It is Mary Magdalene who goes with the other women to the tomb to do the customary anointing of the corpse when all the others around Him had disassociated themselves from His life, His work, His vision. She serves to the very end. She witnesses to the last moment. She stands up to face the system when there is no applause and there is no strong support for the movement and no protection from its enemies. Finally, it is Mary Magdalene, the evangelist John details, to whom Jesus appears first after the resurrection. It is Mary Magdalene who is instructed to proclaim the Easter message to the others. It is she whom Jesus commissions to “tell Peter and the others that I have gone before them into Galilee.” It is Mary Magdalene who sees the risen Christ. She is a shining light of hope, a disciple of Christ, a model of wholeness of life. |
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