Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The DaVinci Code drew a lot of attention because Dan Brown’s notion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married seemed to have a basis in at least one ancient text, a work called the Gospel of Philip found among a cache of manuscripts in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in the mid-1940s. Here’s a line from the Gospel of Philip (a gospel not included in the New Testament) that Brown had one of his characters read:
And the companion of the Saviour is Mary Magdalene. Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on her mouth.
The line sparked enormous controversy once the public learned it came from an actual ancient manuscript. But there was one problem that neither Dan Brown nor his fans who wanted to believe his fiction ever pointed out: the line in the Gospel of Philip doesn’t actually say what you just read above.
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The DaVinci Code drew a lot of attention because Dan Brown’s notion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married seemed to have a basis in at least one ancient text, a work called the Gospel of Philip found among a cache of manuscripts in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in the mid-1940s. Here’s a line from the Gospel of Philip (a gospel not included in the New Testament) that Brown had one of his characters read:
And the companion of the Saviour is Mary Magdalene. Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on her mouth.
The line sparked enormous controversy once the public learned it came from an actual ancient manuscript. But there was one problem that neither Dan Brown nor his fans who wanted to believe his fiction ever pointed out: the line in the Gospel of Philip doesn’t actually say what you just read above.
Dive deeper into this topic: fringepop321.com/mary-magdalene-and-jesus
#GospelOfPhilip #DaVinciCode #NagHammadi #BiblicalScholarship #JesusAndMaryMagdalene
