Is Mary Magdalene Lazarus' sister?

The Catholic Church considers Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany to be the same person - the sister of Martha and Lazarus.

There is no evidence that connects the two. It would make common sense that the term' Magdalene' is added to distinguish one Mary from the other. There are no connections made between the two in the Bible, and all hypothesis to connect them are unfounded.

Answer "Magdalene" is a variant of Migdol. The ancient Israelites named cities built by Phoenicians as Migdol - with the name for the place added (I Kings 9:11). One was probably Magdala on Lake Galilee.

It was a fishing village with the Phoenicians' fish farming ventures of course in the lake itself. Therefore this town did not need the traditional towers (Migdol) for soldiers to man the turrets (Tyre-ets). Whether Mary Magdalene emanated from this town or from a phoenician city somewhere else (near Sidon for example) is unknown.

If the latter is the case, she is probably the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman Jesus would not initially help ("Not right to give meat to dogs-Gentiles"). The woman responded, "But even the house-dogs get the master's crumbs". The ancient links between Israel and Phoenicia are very important but they are overlooked.

Bethany certainly was not a Phoenician city so there is absolutely no reason to equate them. Answer: Originally, there was no connection between Mary Magdalene and Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus, who anointed the feet of Jesus with ointment in John 12:1-8. It was not until the sixth century AD that Pope Gregory the Great confirmed a growing tradition of conflating the women into one, as Mary Magdalene.

New Testament scholars notice that the two sisters, Mary and Martha, and Lazarus occur only in Luke's Gospel and John's Gospel. In Luke, Mary is not even the sister of Lazarus, who appears only as a character in a parable about his death and hypothetical resurrection. Then in John's Gospel, which is now known to have been loosely based on Luke, Mary and Martha become the sisters of Lazarus in a story of his actual death and resurrection.

It could be concluded from this that the story of Lazarus in John's Gospel is an example of poetic licence and therefore that Lazarus did not really exist. Answer Mary Magdalene the Phoenician clearly was not the Mary who anointed Jesus feet. But both women are certainly very memorable for the roles they played.

Jesus said exactly that of Mary the sister of Lazarus (or Simon the Pharisee) because she was such a long-standing devoted and listening believer who loved nothing more than to sit at Jesus' feet and listen to him so much so that her sister would scold her for abdicating her duties!

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