{"id":2680,"date":"2018-03-28T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nltblog.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:22:43","slug":"marys-testimony-he-is-risen-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/2018\/03\/28\/marys-testimony-he-is-risen-from-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary\u2019s Testimony: He Is Risen From the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
“<\/span>After Jesus rose from the dead early on Sunday morning, the first person who saw him was Mary Magdalene, the woman from whom he had cast out seven demons.” Mark 16:9, NLT<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Devotional from the\u00a0Dancing in the Desert Devotional Bible<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In a legal setting, the testimony of a woman was considered unreliable, subject to undue influences of the heart and imagination and therefore inadmissible. Men of the first century\u2014Jewish, Greek, Roman, Arab\u2014all held this view, albeit in varying degrees. They easily dismissed the words of a woman if those words didn\u2019t fit their assumptions. The disciples rejected Mary Magdalene\u2019s testimony of having seen Jesus (16:11), and they were later rebuked for that by Jesus himself (16:14). Yet of all the followers of Jesus\u2014of all those whom the biblical text refers to as disciples, whether directly or by implication\u2014Jesus appeared first to Mary and the women with her. Not only that, he sent her to tell the news to the men (Matthew 28:10).<\/p>\n