Maria Magdelen. A prostitute?

The Bible is the most sold book of all time...and ironically, the least read!

Not a great number of people really know (or care) what it says. Many religions take out bits here and there and organise them in such a way, as to say what they want to say. Amazingly enough a good modern translation of the Bible is not difficult to understand. But very easy to misinterpret intentionally

Imagine we all read a Harry Potter book and then discussed it afterwards.

Chances are we would all have a basic knowledge of the characters and what they do.

Some misinterpretations of the Bible are so blatent there is no basis for them.
Take Mary Magdelen for example, often called a 'prostitute'. It does not say in the bible that she was a prostitute. So where did that idea come from?
Possibly the fact that according to John 8:3 the scribes brought forth a woman who was accused of 'adultery'. (They were trying to trap Jesus into telling every one to stone her so that they could accuse him of something). Jesus told those who were without sin to stone her...we all know the story. So she was an adultress. That is how the church could have come to call her a prostitute.

Dan Brown wrote a very controversial novel stating that Jesus actually married her. This would not seem right to me. Jesus was very religious and of course this woman was already married. And it would be very unlikely that he should marry a divorced woman. (Mat. 5:31)
So we have old misinterpretations and new.

There is quite a list of them actually but i dont want to go through them all now.

I would just like to say. After reading a novel or book sometimes we can loose the plot. With the bible this is so true that many just loose the plot, if they didn't, then they could not misinterpret it as they do.