Bible Mysteries
A Look at What Happened Because of an Unnamed Woman in the Bible
Who was she, and what difference does it make?
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9 min readOct 8, 2019
Recently, I edited a story by Belinda Adom Takyi featuring a woman with an alabaster jar.
In her story, Belinda identified the woman as Mary Magdalene, and this immediately raised a question in my mind.
Was this woman Mary Magdalene?
There’s no indication in the account of this story in either Matthew 26:6–13 or Mark 14:3–9 that she is. The woman in both of these passages is unnamed.
Are these passages talking about the same woman — and the same incident?
