urther, the
names of Mary and the Apostles, and Lazarus and/or Simon, may have been changed
to protect the innocent and the royal house of David. The Scriptures never said
that Jesus was not married; we have seen from history that the physical danger
to his family and followers would have been reason enough to remove Jesus'
marriage from the record. The Mother Church had been lost with Jerusalem and the
latter destruction of Israel itself. The Jewish Christian Church disappeared as
the Jewish people were killed or sold into slavery. After Jesus's death, the
messianic political revolutionary movements led by the Zealot party continued
among the Jews against the Romans, reaching a critical peak a generation later
in a widespread Palestinian revolt. In the ensuing war, Roman troops crushed the
rebellion, captured Jerusalem, and destroyed the Jewish Temple (70 A.D.). The
Christian community in Jerusalem and Palestine was thereby dispersed, and the
closest link of the Christian religion to Judaism-maintained and symbolized by
the Jerusalem Christians-was severed. Christianity thereafter was more a
Hellenistic than a Palestinian phenomenon. From Paul, at the start of
Christianity, to Augustine, its most influential protagonist at the end of the
classical era, the character and aspirations of the new religion were decisively
molded by its Greco-Roman context. How many records were lost or censored? The
physical documents avalible to us today date 'several' years after the life of
Jesus. Early doucments speak of Jesus' relation to Mary as romantic and her
being most devoted of his disciples. Romantic Love was killed by the established
traditions of Patriarchy; and dismissed when the church became an arm of Rome.
Suffice it to remember that his beloved sat at his feet drinking in his every
word (Luke 10: 39) and that she anointed his feet with her tears and dried them
with her hair (John 12:3). In John, Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus is portrayed in a different light. She lives in Bethany of Judea and she calls on Jesus to return there to save her brother: 1 1:1 "Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha."saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus." Jesus delays ceremonially for two days. Lazarus dies and is 'stinking'. Martha goes out to meet him. In almost ritual style Jesus has Martha declare 1 1:27 "Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world."
"And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him." This term is used again by Magdalene at the burial - Rabboni.
Sarah also called her husband Lord.; Sitting Shiva ( an ancient engagement custom ) explains the mystery of why she waited before coming quickly.
When Jesus Calls on Lazarus, he groans. This very act of 'miracle work' with well known associates, sets the stage for his own demise, a life for a life, because the priests plot because of this miracle, that he should become the sacrifice ; Did they know he was the atonement king?
"Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not." John then tells a story in which the foot anointing leads to Jesus'demise: 12:2 "There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then saith ... Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? ... Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this ." Mary is thus acclaimed by Jesus as the only one who has foreknowledge of the inner mystery that is about to take place, unlike his disciples.