The few details told us of the encounter between Mary Magdalene and our Lord in the Garden seen of the Resurrection inclines one to imagine that this may be the same woman, who was so grateful for having been set free of sin and who once again weeping and sought to touch our Lord:

20:11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; 20:12 and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 20:13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." 20:14 Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 20:15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." 20:16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rab-bo'ni!" (which means Teacher). 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." 20:18 Mary Mag'dalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her. (John)

Beyond associating Mary Magdalene with the unnamed sinner who anointed Jesus, there is a tradition going back to the Patristics which associates her with Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha and Lazarus. Such a link is suggested by the other anointing episode which occurred at Bethany by Mary, as described in Mt, Mk, and John:

12:1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Laz'arus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 12:2 There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Laz'arus was one of those at table with him. 12:3 Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him), said, 12:5 "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it. 12:7 Jesus said, "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial. 12:8 The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."

Those who hold that this is Mary Magdalene regard the episode of anointing with tears as an earlier foreshadowing of this more perfect anointing more immediately associated with the burial of Christ, by the same woman.

 

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