Tsuyu said:
I wasn't even the one who brough up the subject of the painting.
Mary Magdalene (not to be confused with his mother!) was a prostitute that was "cleansed of sin" by and thereafter followed Jesus around, much like the male apostles. So why wasn't she in the famous Last Supper painting? Why are there officially just the twelve all-male apostles?
Sorry - I thought because you were the first to mention it that it had some bearing on your musings. My apologies.
Mary's role in the bible was one of involvement but what I was trying to get at was the fact that there are a number of presumptions made concerning her based on what those books NOT included in the bible say about her and a couple of misconceptions. The things that are definitely about her within the NT are:
Jesus cast 7 demons out of her
She financially supported Jesus (along with many others)
She witnessed the crucifixion
She was there when he was buried
She turned up at his tomb to find him gone
She then saw him later, had a little chat and then went to tell the disciples what she had seen
Anything else is either conjecture or misinterpretation of scripture where she is mentioned closely to another woman's behaviour/speech.
That, I believe, is what her role was within the context of the bible - more or less.
