{"id":61606,"date":"2019-04-05T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=61606"},"modified":"2019-04-12T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T00:26:09","slug":"watch-jesus-meets-mary-magdalene-in-a-clip-from-mary-magdalene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2019\/04\/watch-jesus-meets-mary-magdalene-in-a-clip-from-mary-magdalene.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Jesus meets Mary Magdalene in a clip from Mary Magdalene<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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All four gospels place Mary Magdalene at the crucifixion of Jesus and at the empty tomb. But only one of them tells us anything about her life before that \u2014 and it has nothing to do with the western tradition that she was a former prostitute.<\/p>\n

Instead, Luke 8:1-3<\/a> tells us she was one of \u201cmany\u201d female patrons of the Jesus movement who traveled with Jesus and the Twelve after being \u201ccured of evil spirits and diseases\u201d. It also specifies that Mary Magdalene herself had \u201cseven demons\u201d cast out of her.<\/p>\n

The new film Mary Magdalene<\/a><\/i>, which is finally coming to North American theatres next week, aims to correct the mistaken impression that Mary was a former prostitute. But \u2014 as you can see in the clip below, which was first posted at People.com<\/a> \u2014 it also gently subverts the biblical account, by suggesting that she was never really possessed, and that the demon (singular) was a figment of her family\u2019s superstitious imagination:<\/p>\n