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>An analysis of how the name Mary is used in the gospels may help shed some light on the question of Jesus' parentage. There are at least three major characters named Mary in the Bible: Jesus' mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the sister of Martha. In the gospels, Mary Magdalene is a follower of Jesus. In the canonical gospels, she plays the role of the woman who finds the empty tomb. Her name is typically believed to derive from the city of Magdala, as in Mary of Magdala, with Magdala being rooted in the Hebrew word migdal, meaning tower. The Gospel of Luke describes her as one of many sinful women with a side note that Jesus had at some point in his overlooked past removed seven demons from her. Other than that, the gospels treat her as a non-entity
>But Mary Magdalene plays a more important role in some Gnostic gospels. The Gnostic Gospel of Philip suggests that Jesus often kissed Mary, causing some books like The Da Vinci Code to theorize that Mary Magdalene was really Jesus' wife. In the Gnostic Gospel of Mary, Mary unveils secret knowledge about seven powers of wrath, which probably inspired the idea of the seven demons being exorcized from her. Most scholars identify this Mary with Mary Magdalene but some instead identify her with Jesus' mother. Peter plays a villain in this gospel, incredulous that Jesus would tell such a thing to a woman, but the disciple Levi reveals that Jesus loved Mary more than the rest of the apostles. Catholic theologian Ramon K. Jusino has even suggested that Mary Magdalene was the original “Beloved Disciple” in the Gospel of John before she was changed by an editorial update into the anonymous male disciple in the current canonical version
