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and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
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Verse 2. Mention is made in the gospels, of a woman who was a sinner, (Luke 7) of Mary of Bethania, the sister of Lazarus, (John 11 and 12 Mark 14 Matthew 26) and of Mary Magdalene, who followed Jesus from Galilee, and ministered to him. Many think all this to belong to one and the same person: others think these were three distinct persons. See the arguments on both sides in Alban Butler’s Lives of Saints, July 22d; and also more at large in the dissertations upon the three Marys, at the conclusion of the harmony in the Bible de Vence.
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