Mary Magdalene
Since we recently celebrated Easter and remembered the resurrection of Jesus Christ – if we attended church or read the passages from scripture chronicling those events - we may have noticed Mary Magdalene. She has the distinctions of being one of Jesus’s female disciples. We first meet her in Luke 8, where we find out Jesus has delivered her from seven demons. This is also mentioned in the gospel of Mark (Luke 8:2; Mark 16:9). We don’t read about this occurrence – this casting out of demons. We don’t have any details of when it occurred, what she suffered, or how Jesus delivered her. We only have the statements from Luke and Mark that it happened. From other examples of demon possessed people in Scripture we can imagine what life would have been like for Mary – dark, oppressive, terrifying, depressing, degrading and desperate. But she was delivered. Jesus saw her – He knew her – and He delivered her. She is likely called Mary Magdalene to differentiate her from the multiple othe