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While we don’t all have to thank him for expelling seven demons from us (I’ll happily let Mary Magdalene keep that distinction for herself), we can look back on the moments when his presence ...
“Mary Magdalene” Director Garth Davis and his ... we believe to be the Mary from whom seven demons were ejected according to Mark. And what did these seven demons signify if not all the ...
Both the Gospels of Mark and Luke confirm that Mary Magdalene started following Jesus after he cast seven demons out of her. All four Gospels state that Mary Magdalene was present in pretty key ...
interest in the historical Mary Magdalene has risen stratospherically during the past few years. As with her fellow disciple, Judas, we know very little about her. Jesus cast seven demons out of ...
But evil is indiscriminate, no matter your looks or wealth, and so Mary Magdalene became possessed by seven demons. In the past, the number seven was regarded as being significant, so if one demon ...
The Gospels of Luke and Mark record that Jesus cast seven demons out of Mary Magdalene. She subsequently joined a group of women whom Jesus also “cured of evil spirits and diseases.” ...
With breathtaking oversimplification, Gregory conflated Mary Magdalene of the seven demons with the unnamed "sinner" who washed Jesus's feet with her hair in Luke (a close reading of Luke 7 and 8 ...
The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s ...
“There’s always the possibility of redemption. The Scriptures tell us Mary Magdalene was possessed by seven demons. Seven is a symbol of completeness. She was totally possessed. She probably ...
So say the Revs. Tim O’Neal and Mark Woodruff, who agree that Mary Magdalene refuted the belief of that era that women were inferior. Referring to Jesus’ casting seven demons out of Magdalene ...