Mary Magdalene

Also known as: Mary called Magdalene · Family: Jesus's followers · Role: follower of Jesus · First appears: Matthew 27

In Matthew 27, Mary Magdalene followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to him, among the women who watched from afar. In Matthew 28, as she went to tell the disciples, she and the other women held Jesus by the feet and worshipped him; he told them, “Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.”

On the first day of the week, the women found the sepulchre’s stone rolled away, and Jesus, risen, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, “out of whom he had cast seven devils.” In John 20, she found the stone removed from Jesus’s sepulchre, saw him alive, and reported to Peter and the disciples that she had seen Jesus and that he had spoken to her.

Relationship record

Life events

Jesus appears to the women, who worship him.(Matthew 28)
- With: Mary of Bethany Jesus
- “And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.”
Jesus commands the women to tell his brethren to go into Galilee.(Matthew 28 · 📍 Galilee)
- With: Jesus Mary of Bethany
- “Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.”
The women discover that the sepulchre’s stone has been rolled away.(Mark 16 · 📍 sepulchre)
- With: Mary the mother of James Salome
- “And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.”
Jesus appears first to Mary Magdalene after rising.(Mark 16)
- With: Jesus
- “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene”
Mary Magdalene discovers that the stone has been removed from Jesus's sepulchre.(John 20 · 📍 sepulchre)
- “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.”
Jesus reveals himself alive to Mary Magdalene.(John 20 · 📍 sepulchre)
- With: Jesus
- “And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.”
Mary Magdalene reports to the disciples that she has seen the risen Jesus.(John 20)
- With: Jesus
- “Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.”

Matthew 27

with Jesus (Mary Magdalene followed and ministered to Jesus.) “And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among which was Mary Magdalene”

Matthew 28

deity: Jesus “And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.”
commander: Jesus “Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.”

Mark 15

with Jesus (Mary Magdalene is among the women described as having followed and ministered to Jesus.) “(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.”

Mark 16

with Jesus (Jesus had cast seven devils out of Mary Magdalene.) “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.”

John 20

with Peter (Mary reports that Jesus's body has been taken from the sepulchre.) “Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.”
commander: Jesus (Jesus commands Mary to go and report to his brethren.) “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”

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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.