Mary Magdalene Page #5

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the coming of the kingdom

and found their fate

lay on the execution block?

Or the cross, if someone

were to shout, "Messiah"?

By then the kingdom of David

will have truly begun.

I didn't know

we were to be soldiers.

No, sister.

We are just a group of men.

Unarmed.

ANDREW:
And how many Roman

guards in Jerusalem alone...

The prophet spoke of peace,

a "Prince of Peace."

Perhaps those who have

not been with us long

should keep their counsel, eh?

Everyone should be

free to speak here.

JOHN:

It's not our place to judge.

PETER:

But we will be judged.

(FLY BUZZING)

When you were younger,

did you ever think,

if you looked away

from something,

that it may just disappear?

(CHUCKLES)

I'll miss the lake.

My brothers and I used to see how

long we could hold our breath

under the water in the lake,

how deep into the weeds

we could swim.

I loved it down there.

It was like I didn't need my body.

I didn't need the earth.

And then I would rise up

into the air, into the light.

Is that what it feels like

to be one with God?

No one has ever asked me

how it feels.

Are they arguing?

They sounded like soldiers.

- Do you want to be a soldier?

- No.

Although I'm not sure

what matters to a woman

is of much account here.

Why do you say that?

The women in Magdala,

they were too afraid.

They were too afraid

to be baptized with the men.

And they can't follow you.

Forgive me.

(MEN SNORING)

(THOMAS PRAYING IN HEBREW)

(ALL PRAYING IN HEBREW)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

The synagogue is

on the other side of town.

This is not a place for men.

(WOMEN MURMURING)

Well, unless he intends to

wash his robes,

- I think he means to teach here.

- WOMAN 1:
Jesus.

WOMAN 2:

It's Jesus.

Because of her?

Mary.

He's waiting. Look.

What shall I teach?

Are we so different from men you

must teach us different things?

We are women.

Our lives are not our own.

Your spirit's your own.

And you alone answer for that.

And your spirit

is precious to God,

as precious as

that of your husband

or your father.

Then who should we obey?

If God commands one thing,

but our husbands, our fathers,

tell us another?

You must follow God.

So are we to defy them

and leave our lives behind?

Yes.

Though they judge you,

persecute you,

you must forgive them.

Forgive them?

A year ago, a woman from Sana...

Many of us knew her here.

She was young.

Her husband found her

with another man,

and he and his brothers,

they dragged her to the river,

and they raped her.

And after they were done,

they drowned her.

In the court, before they were

sentenced, one of them repented,

"God forgive me."

But I'm not God, Father.

How does it feel to carry

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