It was Mary Magdalene who anointed Jesus as the Messiah, an action whose symbolism was lost on the men of the group but that moved our Lord to say, "Wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her." This sacred anointing was directed by God; and beware if you as a Christian preach that it was not! It places Mary on a greater or equal basis with the most noteworthy of Old Testament Prophets. What right does such a one have to be compared to the high priest. Only the high priest, the holiest man in Israel, can look behind the veil and then only to see the type, not the reality. But Mary is enabled to see the reality, the fullness, the Ark of the Covenant! Don't you see, the tomb is the reality that the Ark of the Covenant foreshadowed. It is in the tomb, that place of corruption, where our Lord Christ reigns over death. The Ark had represented the throne of God. So it is in the tomb where our Lord reigns over death and hell. This is the vision that is given to Mary. What a love, what an honor and a grace that is put upon her! That would be enough honor, wouldn't it? Just to see the reality of what all the priests of Israel had anticipated if in faithfulness they had entered behind that veil. For Mary to see that would be sufficient honor.

Mary the apostle, prophet, and teacher had become Mary the repentant whore. This fiction was invented at least in part to undermine her influence and with it the appeal to her apostolic authority to support women in roles of leadership

It is clear from the four canonical Gospels that Mary Magdalen enjoyed special precedence in the community of believers, since she was the first person to see and speak to Jesus on Easter Sunday, having hurried to his tomb at first light to perform embalming rites for his dead body. There are seven lists in the four Gospels that name the women who accompanied Jesus. In six of the seven, the name of Mary Magdalen is given first--ahead of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and ahead of the other women mentioned. The Gospel writers, beginning with Mark, are most likely reflecting the status of the Magdalen in the Christian community--that of First Lady.

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