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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36494" /> ==
 
<p> Mary Magdalene, i.e. of [[Magdala]] in [[Naphtali]] (&nbsp;Joshua 19:38), now ''El-Mendel'' on the W. of the sea of Galilee. Lightfoot (Her. [[Hebrew]] &nbsp;Matthew 26:56; Harm. Evan. &nbsp;Luke 8:3) identifies her with "the woman a sinner" (&nbsp;Luke 7:37), and explains "Mary of the braided locks" from gaadal "to braid" (?). She was one of the women "who ministered to Jesus of their substance." [[Gratitude]] moved Mary Magdalene, as Christ had cast out of her seven ''(The Number For Completeness, I.E. A "Legion" Of)'' demons (compare &nbsp;Matthew 12:45; &nbsp;Mark 16:9). She, with the rest of the healed women, accompanied Him in one of His tours "throughout every city and village of Galilee, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God, the twelve being with Him" (&nbsp;Luke 8:1-2-3). In His last journey to [[Jerusalem]] again they accompanied Him from [[Galilee]] (&nbsp;Matthew 27:55; &nbsp;Mark 15:41; &nbsp;Luke 23:55; &nbsp;Luke 24:10). "They stood afar off beholding these things," namely, the closing agony of the crucifixion (&nbsp;Luke 23:49). </p> <p> Mary the mother of James, and [[Salome]] mother of Zebedee's children, were thus grouped with Mary [[Magdalene]] (&nbsp;Mark 15:40), also the [[Virgin]] Mary (&nbsp;John 19:25). Mary Magdalene remained "sitting over against the sepulchre," and "beholding" until [[Joseph]] of [[Arimathea]] laid the Lord's body in the tomb (&nbsp;Mark 15:47; &nbsp;Matthew 27:61; &nbsp;Luke 23:55). She, Salome, and Mary mother of James, "when it was yet dark," at early "dawn of the first day of the week," "came to see the sepulchre," "bringing the sweet spices which they had prepared" wherewith to "anoint Him," in a liquid state, since they regarded the use of the powdered spices of [[Nicodemus]] wrapped in the swathes as an incomplete and provisional interment (&nbsp;Matthew 28:1; &nbsp;Luke 24:1; &nbsp;Mark 16:1-2). </p> <p> The vision of angels that told her and the rest that Jesus was risen gladdened her at first, then her sorrows returned, she thought it but a vision. She went off to Peter and John ''(Son Of Salome, Who Had Been With Her)'' crying "they have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we ''(Undesignedly Implying That Other Women Had Been With Her At The Tomb Though She Is Now Alone)'' know not where they have laid Him" (&nbsp;John 20:2). She returned to the tomb, where her heart was, following Peter and John, and remained behind when they went away. "She stood without at the sepulchre weeping," and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain; they say cf6 "why weepest thou?" </p> <p> She saith, her one absorbing thought being the absence of Him whom she had designed to lavish her reverential love upon, "because they have taken away my Lord ''(Her Phrase To The Angels, As It Was 'The Lord' To Her [[Fellow]] [[Disciples]] Peter And John)'' , and I ''(No [[Longer]] 'We' As In '' &nbsp;John 20:2'')'' know not where they have laid Him." Brooding over her one grief in the stupor of hopeless anguish, she, "turning herself back," failed to recognize Jesus, though she saw Him standing there. cf6 "Woman," said He, cf6 "why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?" "Supposing Him to be the gardener she saith, Sir, if thou have borne Him ''(She, With The Natural [[Absence]] Of Mind Of One Absorbed In One Object, [[Forgetting]] To [[Explain]] Whom She Meant, As If All [[Must]] Know Him)'' hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away." She never stops to think of her own weakness as a woman; love gives her the nerve to take it for granted that she is able for the blessed task; contrast her and the women's former question, "who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?" (&nbsp;Mark 16:3.) </p> <p> One word from Jesus, her own name, in His well remembered familiar tone, revealed to her the Lord, cf6 "Mary!" "Rabboni" ''(The [[Strongest]] Term Of [[Reverent]] Love)'' she exclaimed, turning herself and casting herself at His feet and embracing them. ''(For [[Fuller]] Details, See Jesus Christ.)'' Truly the poet writes: Not she with traitorous kiss her [[Master]] stung, Not she denied Him with unfaithful tongue; She, when apostles fled, could dangers brave, Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave." He stops her in respect to a love which leaned too much upon His fleshly presence; she and His disciples now need to rise to a higher and at the same time a nearer, but spiritual, communion with Him. cf6 "Be not now touching Me" ''(Compare '' &nbsp;1 John 1:1'')'' , for the time of this permanent "seeing" (&nbsp;John 16:16; &nbsp;John 16:19; &nbsp;John 16:22) and knowing Me after the Spirit, which is to supersede your past "knowledge of Me after the flesh" (&nbsp;2 Corinthians 5:16), is not yet come, cf6 "but go to My brethren and say, I am ascending ''(Already My [[Ascension]] Has Begun)'' unto My Father and your Father" (&nbsp;Hebrews 2:10-11). </p> <p> Her earthly affection needed to be elevated into a heavenly one (&nbsp;John 20:25-29). It was Thomas' need too; Jesus' condescension in stooping to his weakness and granting him the fleshly touch was to raise him to the higher one of faith. This is the last mention of her, a most graphic one, supplied to us by the son of her old associate, Salome. The seven demons that had possessed her were her misfortune, not the proof that she had been in the common sense "a woman which was a sinner." &nbsp;Luke 7:37,39: the KJV heading of the chapter is wrong, identifying the two. Mary that anointed Jesus was the sister of [[Martha]] and [[Lazarus]] and distinct from Mary Magdalene. The mention of the anointing in &nbsp;John 11:2 is evidently John's anticipation of &nbsp;John 12:3, to inform his readers that the Mary in John 11 is the same as she whose anointing of the Lord they knew by common tradition. It does not mean that she had already anointed Him and was identical with the woman a sinner whose anointing of Him is recorded in Luke 7. </p>
Mary Magdalene <ref name="term_76625" />
       
<p> A Galilæan, belonging to Magdala, on the Sea of Galilee, who followed Christ, stood by the cross, prepared spices for His sepulchre, to whom He first appeared after His resurrection, and who is supposed by some recent critics to be the sole voucher for His rising again. </p>
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73797" /> ==
 
<p> '''Ma'ry Mag'dalene.''' Different explanations have been given of this name; but the most natural is that she came ''From The Town Of Magdala.'' She appears before us for the first time in &nbsp;Luke 8:2, among the women who "ministered unto him of their substance." All appear to have occupied a position of comparative wealth. With all, the chief motive was that of gratitude for their deliverance from "evil spirits and infirmities." </p> <p> Of Mary, it is said specially that "seven devils went out of her," and the number indicates a possession of more than ordinary malignity. She was present during the closing hours of the agony on the cross. &nbsp;John 19:25. She remained by the cross till all was over, and waited till the body was taken down and placed in the garden sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathaea, &nbsp;Matthew 27:61; &nbsp;Mark 15:47; &nbsp;Luke 23:55, when she, with Salome and Mary, the mother of James, "bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint" the body. &nbsp;Mark 16:1. </p> <p> The next morning, accordingly, in the earliest dawn, &nbsp;Matthew 28:1; &nbsp;Mark 16:2, they came with Mary, the mother of James, to the sepulchre. Mary Magdalene had been to the tomb and had found it empty, and had seen the "vision of angels." &nbsp;Matthew 28:5; &nbsp;Mark 16:6. </p> <p> To her first of all, [[Jesus]] appeared after his resurrection. &nbsp;John 20:1-15. Mary Magdalene has become the type of a class of repentant sinners; but there is no authority for identifying her with the "sinner" who anointed the feet of [[Jesus]] in &nbsp;Luke 7:36-50. Neither is there any authority for the supposition that Mary Magdalene is the same as the sister of Lazarus. Neither of these theories has the slightest foundation in fact. </p>
== References ==
       
== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48219" /> ==
<p> I cannot prevail upon myself to pass over this memorable name, without shortly noticing the distinguishing mercy of the Lord Jesus manifested to this poor sinner. She was the first, we are told, that had the honour and holy joy afforded her, lo have an interview with Christ after he arose from the dead, (&nbsp;Mark 16:9) It was not Peter, nor James, nor John, no, nor any of the whole college of the apostles, to whom Jesus first shewed himself. A woman is marked out for this peculiar privilege, yea, and such a woman as one might hare supposed would have been not the first upon the occasion; for we are told, that Jesus had cast out of her seven devils. And what is more remarkable, the [[Holy]] Ghost is particular to tell the church this, in the same moment he speaks of the mercy; for so the sweet and gracious words run" Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary, Magdalene, out of whom he cast seven devils;"Did the kind compassionate, Lord mean to say by this condescending act of grace, that there he will be most gracious where Satan hath been most, cruel? Did he thereby mean to intimate to all his disciples, that the poor lamb of his fold shall have, the softest lying down in his bosom, whom the prowling wolf hath most torn and worried with his claws? Oh! that every deeply-exercised follower of the Lord Jesus would frequently think of this; and, as often as this Magdalene riseth to their recollection, would behold the Lord Jesus in this unequalled act of mercy, that "where sin abounded, grace doth much more abound; that as sin hath reigned unto death, so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord?" (&nbsp;Romans 5:21) </p>
       
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67586" /> ==
<p> First spoken of as one who ministered to the Lord of her substance, to which is added that seven demons had been cast out of her. The two things stand in wonderful contrast; in the one she was completely under the power of Satan, and in the other she was ministering to the Lord Jesus. &nbsp;Luke 8:2,3 . Nothing more is related of Mary until the crucifixion, when she is mentioned by name as being with the other women, gazing at the One she loved on the cross. She waited to see where the body was laid, then rested during the Sabbath, and on Saturday evening she bought spices with which to embalm the Lord's body, but early the next morning she found the tomb empty. She ran with the news to Peter and John; who came and verified her statement, but went away again to their own home. Mary however could not leave the spot; and looking again into the tomb, she saw two angels there, to whom she lamented the loss of the body. The Lord revealed Himself to her, and comforted her broken heart by speaking her name 'Mary,' to which she replied, 'Rabboni,' or teacher. He sent her to His disciples with the wonderful message, "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." This would be as true of her as of them. Her deep love was thus rewarded. &nbsp;Matthew 27:56; &nbsp;John 19:25; &nbsp;John 20:1-18 . She is really called 'Mary of Magdala,' a town near the Sea of Galilee: her name and her character are not in any way connected with the modern term of 'Magdalen.' </p>
       
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<ref name="term_76625"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/magdalene,+mary Mary Magdalene from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
<ref name="term_36494"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/mary+magdalene Mary Magdalene from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_73797"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/mary+magdalene Mary Magdalene from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_48219"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hawker-s-poor-man-s-concordance-and-dictionary/mary+magdalene Mary Magdalene from Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_67586"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/mary+magdalene Mary Magdalene from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
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Latest revision as of 18:42, 15 October 2021

Mary Magdalene [1]

A Galilæan, belonging to Magdala, on the Sea of Galilee, who followed Christ, stood by the cross, prepared spices for His sepulchre, to whom He first appeared after His resurrection, and who is supposed by some recent critics to be the sole voucher for His rising again.

References

  1. ↑ Mary Magdalene from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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