Jesus and Mary Magdalene
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Was Jesus married? That is the question that many people have after reading The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. Mary Magdalene is commonly believed to have traveled the Jesus and the disciples. She is a small character in the bible important only as the first witness to the resurrection of Jesus. In the eyes of the public, they feel that Mary Magdalene was more then just a witness, that she was his wife. There are passages in the bible supporting Mary Magdalene was not Jesus wife and it conflicts with what Mr. Brown says in The Da Vinci Code.
In the book, Leonardo Da Vincis painting of The Last Supper depicts that the person to right of Jesus is a women, Mary Magdalene but is usually claimed to be John the Baptist. In Patricia Limericks essay, “Haunted America,” she claims that history is not always correct. Many readers believe Mary Magdalene could very well be Jesus wife; the witnesses and writers of the bible could have left that piece of information out. On the other hand, many Christians, Catholics, and Protestants believe that Mary was not his wife because there is no evidence in the bible. The Da Vinci Code is considered to be revisionist history because it is contradicting what were said hundreds sometimes thousands of years ago.
According to The Da Vinci Code, Leonardo Da Vincis painting of The Last Supper has numerous hidden symbolisms. For example the book suggest that “the character to Jesus right, generally thought to be John, is really female, not male, and is Leonardos vision of Mary Magdalene, sitting in the most important
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place next to Jesus.” (Secrets of the Code). If you look extremely close to the painting you can see that all of the men in the picture look as if they are at least over the age of 30 years old. The bible claims that all of the disciples were under the age of twenty years old. Jesus had to pay temple tax for his disciples during the ages of seventeen and twenty, the age when the boys were generally supposed to get married. The bible says that Jesus only had to pay tax for Peter Simon. So, the painting by Da Vinci illustrates that the men are a lot older then they are supposed to be. Also something that the bible claims is that, “there is no central chalice or wine goblet in The Last Supper despite the popular preconception that there is. Instead, each person at the table has a small glass cup of his/her own.” In the Christian bible it says that during The Last Supper the disciples passed and drank Jesus blood out of a chalice. Once again, Da Vincis painting does not illustrate that.
In Patricia Limericks essay Haunted America, she talks about the Indians and the Whites at war. She says “The stories of the wars are narrative so tangled and dense that they defy clear telling. In these summations, every ounce of that complexity disappears” (Haunted America). Compared to The Da Vinci Code, the essay Haunted America, claims that information is not always true and it can get tangled up, and sometimes even lost in history.
Even though many people believe that The Da Vinci Code claiming Mary Magdalene as Jesus wife is true, many Christians disagree because of evidence from the bible. In John 12 it says,
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Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of oil. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simons son who would betray him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial. For the poor you have with you always, but me you do not have always. (John 12 1:7)
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