Mary Magdalene Monologue

The Gospel of Mary inspired the monologue of Mary Magdalene as Jesus’ sister. To me, it became clear that Mary had known the secrets of Jesus and Jesus treated her the best, because they were siblings and best friends, not lovers. I took this connection I had made and used it as the association of Mary Magdalene in the gospels. Mary Magdalene traveled with Jesus when he proclaimed the Kingdom of God, she was present with the mother of Jesus during his crucifixion, and she was present at the tomb of Jesus with Jesus’ mother. She traveled with Jesus along with his brothers, because she and Jesus were siblings close in age, also best friends because of this small age gap. She was present at his death with their mother, like a sibling would go with their parents to support their other sibling during a troubling time. She was present at the tomb of Jesus, like a sibling would go with their parents to visit the burial site of a lost sibling. Mary Magdalene was not close to Jesus because they were lovers; she was close to Jesus because they were brother and sister. In Luke, Jesus travels through

I combined the three, yet completely changed the angel that appears to Mary. Mary and her mother brought spices to his tomb so they could anoint him, and when they arrived, the stone covering his resting place had been moved (Luke 24:1-2; Mark 16:4-5). Mary, the mother of Jesus, makes perfect sense to why she would be the one to anoint His body. It was her son and a mother cares for her children the most. So, in the case of Mary Magdalene, she also makes perfect sense to why she would be the one to anoint His body with his mother. She is His sister, Mary is her mother, and she cares for her brother more than she cares for anyone else. The angel, or angels in Luke, are men. In the monologue, the angel is a woman, because I wanted to demonstrate that the angel was Mary’s