On 12/31/2013 9:35 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Indeed. Now bear in mind that in those far-off days a woman's testimony
> would be regarded as very much inferior to a male witness. If the Gospel
> writers were making the story up would they have chosen Mary as a witness
> to that pivotal event rather than, say, Peter?
>
"John 20 and Mark 16:9 specifically name her as the first person to see
Jesus after his Resurrection. She was there at the "beginning of a
movement that was going to transform the West". She was the "Apostle to
the Apostles", an honorific that fourth-century orthodox theologian
Augustine gave her and that others earlier had possibly conferred on her."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene
