Mary Magdalene
In Our Time: Religion
The Importance of Care in the Gospel of John
In the Gospel of John, there is this very extended conversation between Jesus and Mary where initially she doesn't recognise him. I think she must have had a kind of duty of care. That doesn't imply she was married to Jesus, but it might imply that among the women disciples, she was the most preeminent. It's a sense that everyone is children of God and everyone can call God Father at this point. So there is something miraculously transcendent that has just taken place. To try and plumb the depths of that is to go deep into the esoteric vision, I think, of the Gospel ofJohn.
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