The Magdalene and marriage

Divorce is a contentious issue throughout the synoptic gospels but entirely absent from the book of John. The logical explanation is that the bridegroom's wedding at Cana of Galilee was years away from any grounds for divorce. Contrary to tradition, various idiosyncrasies validate that the Greek book branching off from thirty-nine Hebrew books would mimic Genesis ("In the beginning").

The book that ends 39 books of Hebrew (13+13+13) and 26 books of Greek (13+13) is book 66, "Revelation of Jesus Christ | Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ" (1:1). Those three words and three numbers at 13:18 in the last book are expressed in the first book at 2:13 and confirm that placement of every word is guided by the supremacy of ordinal numbering. Proof of this is that the tax collector Matthew confidently writes "LORD" as the 666th word of the Greek Testament.

Matthew writes "Mary the Magdalene" three times and the last one straddles a strikingly symbolic number. The first of the tripartite 666 is "six hundreds | ἑξακόσιοι" (masculine plural). The last figure is the number of man (six), which is derived from the last six verses of the first chapter of Genesis describing the sixth day of creation. Simply multiplying each product by ten three times produces a number that then is tripled to arrive at "Μαριὰμ ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ" (18000 at 28:1). Just how symbolic that title may be ("Magdalene" in Aramaic means "of the tower") is that 18 is 6+6+6. The Magdalene's number is also a product of 8000 and a myriad (Greek 10,000). The name "MARY | ΜΑΡΙΑΜ" is a Hebrew word meaning "bitter" or "rebellious." Also six letters is the name "JESUS | ΙΗΣΟΥΣ" and its product by values assigned the Greek alphabet is 888.

Eight times in Matthew the word for "husband | ἀνὴρ" is used (the word for "wife | γυνή" also means "woman" and is used 29 times plus seven pronouns for a total of 36). Matthew aligns words with numbers in his sermon to show affinities between "ἀνὴρ | γυνή." (Sermon subjects restart the numbering in seven columns headed by 333 to 999.) The three nouns for "wife" are numbered 444 at 5:28, 540 at 5:32 and in a quote as word 88 (444) as sermon word 526 at 5:31. Two men who built houses are both described by an adjective: "mindful | φρονίμῳ" as word 588 (888) at 7:24 and "foolish | μωρῷ" as word 988 (666) at 7:26. Both are married.

John also uses the noun "husband" eight times, the second time by the pronoun "whom" to refer to his younger cousin as "that first one of me | ὅτι πρῶτός μου" (1:30). "Whom" is book word 440 and the demonstrative "that" is book word 444. The writer is indirectly saying Jesus was as married as Peter emphatically says he was in Luke 5:8 ("that husband a sinner | ὅτι ἀνὴρ ἁμαρτωλός").

Rabbi Jesus vehemently defends the "woman" who anointed him with ointment in the house of Simon the leper. Several numerically significant words arranged by Matthew are as follows: the 26th noun "woman" is book word 15866 (26:10); the last accusative emphatic pronoun "me!" is book word 15880 (26:11); "ointment" is book word 15888 (26:12). The feminine demonstrative pronoun "αὕτη" is used eight times and only the last two are used by Rabbi Jesus for "γυνή" (amplifying what "this woman | αὕτη γυνή" means to him personally). Two verbs also highlight numerical symmetry: "to proclaim" is the eighth of eight verbs as talk word 44 and "she did" is the eighth last verb (the 77th) as talk word 55. The strongest link between these two people is the substance she poured on his head. "JESUS" has the value 888 and 15888 is the number of her anointing "ointment."

"Magdalene" is used eleven times in the original gospels but the redactor of Mark seems compelled to imply a strong correlation to the twelve named apostles. The redactor of John suggests that he shares this opinion. Luke is the author whose books straddle the first gospel written "in the beginning." Luke 7:37 describes a woman as a sinner ("γυνὴ ἁμαρτωλός") just as Peter describes himself. The story of a woman with ointment anointing the Rabbi in Simon's house is related in 18 verses (Luke 7:36-8:3). Three women are named and Mary Magdalene is the first ("seven demons" in 8:2 is also in Mark 16:9). Mary's title is book word 18000 in Matthew 28:1. A woman in Luke 7:44 and 8:44 is told, "Go in peace," after touching him.

Like an anchor in the middle of the book at John 8 are eleven verses that strengthen the speculation that the anointing woman in Luke 7 and the adulterous wife in John are Mary Magdalene. All redactors destroy chronology but the redeeming feature of John 8:11 is the fortuitous numbering of a rather convoluted construction that intuits Acts 8:8. Instead of a pronoun, the writer uses a feminine "the" and a particle ("δὲ") to make a "she" as book word 5888. Therefore, events that happened after this gospel was written may be edited in to form a chain of chapter eights identifying one person, not two or three.

Acts 8:8 is eight words (eight chapters later another named woman is characterized as intimate with the Lord). Common to both books by Luke is that "city" is in both verses that we are assuming is referring to the same woman as John's redactor. "Joy" is a word associated with marriage, such as that shared by the cousins in John 3:29 shortly after the wedding in the preceding chapter. All textual and numerical similarities between any unnamed woman who touches the Rabbi may be assumed to be the one named in Luke 8:2.

The "grounds for divorce" may have been literally spelled out by the bizarre behavior of the Rabbi in front of the adulterous wife when he stooped twice to write with his finger in John 8:6 and 8:8.