Тhe Gospel of Mary Magdalene Reveals The TERRIFYING Truth About Her Secret Relationship With Jesus
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In the past few decades, the Gospel of Mary has grown in popularity mainly because of Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code. Brown cites the Gospel of Mary as evidence that Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ were passionately in love, had a relationship, and were possibly even married. Did the Roman Catholic Church know about the secret relationship between Jesus and Mary and did it deliberately hide it? Well, according to Dan Brown and the bestseller The Da Vinci Code, that might be the case….
But is all this true and does the Gospel of Mary provide historically accurate information about the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene? Did they have such a relationship at all, or was Mary Magdalene rather a faithful follower and initiate in the sacred knowledge?
The Gnostic Gospel of Philip says:
There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion.
The Lord loved Mary Magdalene more than all the disciples and often kissed her. The rest of the disciples, seeing that he loved Mary, said to him: Why do you love her more than all of us? The Savior answered and said to them: Why don't I love you like her?". - Gospel of Philip
But who really was Mary Magdalene?
What we know about her comes more from later Christian tradition than from the Bible itself. For example, there is no evidence in the New Testament that Mary Magdalene was a harlot. On the contrary, Luke 7:36-50 tells of a woman who was a sinner and who anointed Jesus' feet with precious ointment. And Mary, from the city of Magdala in Palestine, was unmarried and financially supported Jesus and his followers. She is an important figure in Christianity as she is among the first to see the empty tomb and the resurrected Jesus in all four gospels of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Only later Christian tradition conflates the image of Mary Magdalene with this woman described by Luke, possibly to diminish Mary's importance.
In what context does the Gospel of Mary appear?
Most of the Gnostic writings we have today come from the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of ancient sacred texts discovered in 1945 in the Egyptian desert near the small town of Nag Hammadi in upper Egypt. Gnosticism was an early form of Christianity that was denounced by the church as heresy. Gnostic texts were thrown out and burned because they were seen as a danger to orthodox Christian views. This is why the discovery of these 52 Gnostic writings at Nag Hammadi is so important.
What is interesting and unique about the Gospel of Mary is that it is not found in Nag Hammadi. The Gospel of Mary originates from something called the Berlin Gnostic Codex, which also contains other Gnostic writings such as the Secret Book of John and the Sophia of Jesus Christ - also non-canonical writings. The Berlin Gnostic Codex dates from about the same time as the Nag Hammadi Codex - from the middle to the end of the IV c. AD. It was purchased in 1896 when it was discovered by a German collector in an antique market in Cairo. However, it took almost a century for it to become widely accessible due to a series of prolonged publication delays. The first scholarly German edition was finally released in 1955, followed by an English version two decades later. It wasn't until yet another twenty years had passed that popular editions became available to the general public.
The Gospel is written from the perspective of Mary Magdalene, but is not believed to have been written by her, as the writing style, grammatical syntax, and theology suggest that it dates no earlier than the 2nd century AD., long after Mary's time. The manuscript itself is a fifth-century Coptic (Egyptian) version of what was almost certainly an earlier Greek or even Syrian text. (according to some hypotheses ancient Bulgarian - Ivan Trenev :D) Two Greek fragments dating back to the third century were discovered in 1917 and 1938, which confirmed the age of the initial text and its significance to the earliest Christian communities (since only important manuscripts were recopied).…. If this is true, it would place the Gospel of Mary Magdalene within the earliest group of Christian writings, roughly contemporary with the Gospel of John. The Gospel is the only canonical or non-canonical gospel attributed to a woman. Mary Magdalene is known as Jesus' favourite disciple and had many followers, especially among Christians in the 2nd century.
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