Was Mary Magdalene Jesus' Wife?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Most people think that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Others say she was Jesus' closest disciple (and the Gospels have covered it up).
Yet others go even further to suggest they had an intimate relationship -- or even were married! Is any of that possible?
If possible, is it true? In this episode we look at what we can actually know about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:06.4 | The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, |
| 0:12.5 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm your host, Megan Lewis. |
| 0:22.6 | Let's begin. |
| 0:24.9 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to misquoting Jesus. |
| 0:27.8 | Today we're going to be talking about Mary Magdalene. |
| 0:30.3 | But before we get into that, but how are you? |
| 0:33.0 | How has your last week been? |
| 0:34.6 | My last week has been crazy like most of my weeks. |
| 0:39.0 | I was thinking, I was talking to somebody the other day. I said, like, everybody I know complains by how busy they are and it's all |
| 0:44.0 | boring to everyone else. You know, my view is, look, we've got 24 hours in the day and each of us |
| 0:48.8 | has 24 hours in the day and all of us fill those 24 hours. So like, what does it mean to be too busy? |
| 0:54.7 | You're just like, you're all doing something. It's always fun to figure out how. For me, it's always fun. The thing is that there are a lot of people who are bored. They don't have anything to do, and they don't know what to do with their time, and they complain about it. And I understand that. It's got to be awful, really, just to not to know what to do with your time. |
| 0:53.4 | What I've always thought is that we ought to figure out some way to work out a time exchange. Somebody can give me like four or five of their hours, then they're happier because they're not bored. And I'm happier because I've got four or five more hours, but we haven't worked out of way how to do it. So yeah, so Megan, how are you doing? |
| 1:11.9 | I'm good and I am 100% on board. because I got four or five more hours, but we haven't worked out of wait. How did it? So, yeah, so |
| 1:27.8 | Megan, how are you doing? I'm good, and I am 100% on board with this time exchange idea. If someone |
| 1:33.4 | out there can work it out, I would be very interested in taking advantage of that. I was in |
| 1:39.4 | Vancouver a couple of weeks ago. I think the week you did one of your guest interviews, I was in |
| 1:44.1 | Vancouver for a conference workshop run by a group called P. couple of weeks ago. I think the week you did one of your guest interviews, I was in Vancouver |
| 1:44.5 | for a conference workshop run by a group called People in the Past. So that was fun. I've never |
| 1:50.3 | been to Canada. Yeah, it was exciting. And it was my first time away from my twin babies since |
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