Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Since the Middle Ages, most of Christianity has mistakenly identified Mary Magdalene with the sinful woman of Luke 7:36-50 who anointed the feet of Jesus after wiping the dust from them with her tears—despite the fact that the passage never mentions a Mary.
How can it be that the woman without a name is identified with Mary Magdalene? The misidentification was a result of three interpretive mistakes: (1) assuming the woman of Luke 7 is the Mary Magdalene of the following chapter, Luke 8; (2) combining Luke 7:36-50 with Mark 14:3-9 and Matt 26:6-13; and (3) assuming that John 12:1-8, a story where Mary Magdalene is named, to be the same story as the one in the other three Gospels.
A careful reading of all of these passages in the four Gospels shows that there are clear differences in the episodes, both in details and in locations of the stories in the flow of each Gospel’s presentation of the life of Jesus.
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Since the Middle Ages, most of Christianity has mistakenly identified Mary Magdalene with the sinful woman of Luke 7:36-50 who anointed the feet of Jesus after wiping the dust from them with her tears—despite the fact that the passage never mentions a Mary.
How can it be that the woman without a name is identified with Mary Magdalene? The misidentification was a result of three interpretive mistakes: (1) assuming the woman of Luke 7 is the Mary Magdalene of the following chapter, Luke 8; (2) combining Luke 7:36-50 with Mark 14:3-9 and Matt 26:6-13; and (3) assuming that John 12:1-8, a story where Mary Magdalene is named, to be the same story as the one in the other three Gospels.
A careful reading of all of these passages in the four Gospels shows that there are clear differences in the episodes, both in details and in locations of the stories in the flow of each Gospel’s presentation of the life of Jesus.
Read the full article: fringepop321.com/mary-magdalene-and-jesus
#MaryMagdalene #BiblicalScholarship #GospelStudy #DrMichaelHeiser #BibleStudy
