Scripture first introduces Mary Magdalene as a woman possessed by seven demons. Which is worse: to have seven entirely evil spiritual entities possess you, or to be a reformed prostitute?

And the Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons ... a long time for a Bible film to set ...

The stories were not included in the New Testament, a point which many scholars argue suggests they in fact supplement the Bible ... Jesus cleansed Mary of her seven demons, and she financially ...

Accepted at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago to ... In Mark 16:9, Jesus is described as appearing to Mary Magdalene, "out of whom he had driven seven demons." Ziegenhine said Luke 8:2 also says ...

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 ...

This is British artist Harold Copping’s depiction of the grieving Mary Magdalene as she ... that he had risen. “The Bible says she had been possessed by seven devils, but who knows what ...

It’s not just any woman, but Christ first appears to Mary Magdalene “from whom seven demons had gone out.” Pope St. Gregory baselessly assumed that phrase meant she had been a sex worker ...

Mary first appears in the Bible around A.D. 25 in Capernaum ... With breathtaking oversimplification, Gregory conflated Mary Magdalene of the seven demons with the unnamed "sinner" who washed ...

The identification of Mary Magdalene with the penitent woman who anoints Jesus’ feet with oil and dries them with her hair is cemented in Sunday school tradition, but it isn’t in the Bible.

Nonetheless, Magdalene has been maligned by Church fathers throughout the centuries; in the present day, feminist scholars have championed her. Magdalene, appearing in scripture only fourteen ...