It must have taken Mary back to that dark time before she met Jesus.
The Bible doesn’t tell us much about Mary Magdalene. In Luke alone we meet her before the crucifixion, and then it’s only a passing reference. Luke tells us that Jesus cast seven demons out of her, and that she, along with many others, is a financial supporter of Jesus and his band of disciples.
But church tradition imagined some pretty sinister things about this woman. Some believed her to be the woman of ill repute who anointed Jesus’ feet with an alabaster jar of ointment and her tears at Simon the Pharisee’s house. Others said that she had been a prostitute.
Those things we do not know, but what we do know is that before she met Jesus, she walked in darkness. That is sure. And now, it seems, she is to be left in the dark again…
The Bible doesn’t tell us much about Mary Magdalene. In Luke alone we meet her before the crucifixion, and then it’s only a passing reference. Luke tells us that Jesus cast seven demons out of her, and that she, along with many others, is a financial supporter of Jesus and his band of disciples.
But church tradition imagined some pretty sinister things about this woman. Some believed her to be the woman of ill repute who anointed Jesus’ feet with an alabaster jar of ointment and her tears at Simon the Pharisee’s house. Others said that she had been a prostitute.
Those things we do not know, but what we do know is that before she met Jesus, she walked in darkness. That is sure. And now, it seems, she is to be left in the dark again…
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