The Importance of Mary Magdalene in John

I think John was trying to make it make the information accessible to the sensitive reader. And maybe it's said delicately knowing that if the Christological Professor is explicitly identified as Mary Magdalene, that this gospel is not going to be received. That might have been problematic. So they were trying to shore it up a little bit more than the author originally did. Just a theory. Well, it's a good theory, a good hypothesis. Hopefully there are future manuscripts discoveries that can help us find some more data that might help us test that hypothesis.