Mary Magdalene Quotes in The Miracle Maker (2000)

Mary Magdalene: [running through the streets] I see you! Hahaha!

[thinks buildings are closing in on her]

Mary Magdalene: Agh!

[runs to a hill, cackling]

Jesus: Mary! Mary!

Mary Magdalene: We know who you are! Jesus! Son of the most high... God!

[screams]

Jesus: Come out of her! Let her go!

Mary Magdalene: [sees empty tomb]

[whispers]

Mary Magdalene: They've taken the body. Oh!

[weeps]

Mary Magdalene: Oh my Lord! My Lord!

Jesus: [appears behind her] Why are you crying?

Mary Magdalene: [sobbing] They... they've taken my Lord away! And I don't know where they have put him!

Jesus: [sits behind her] Tell me who you're looking for.

Mary Magdalene: Oh sir, if you're the gardner, please tell me where they've taken him.

Jesus: *Mary*

Mary Magdalene: [turns around]

[incredulous]

Mary Magdalene: Lord?

Jesus: It's all right.

[Mary embraces him]

Jesus: You don't have to hold on to me now. Go! Tell everyone! Tell Peter!

Tamar: Why are we meeting in secret?

Mary Magdalene: Because Jesus is safer here.

Cleopas: No one would arrest him at Passover.

Tamar: [surprised] Arrest him?

Mary Magdalene: [rambling] Hands off me! I'll give you murderers! Your money.

[tosses money at tax collectors]

Mary Magdalene: Your money!

Tax Collector: Leave this one. She's the mad woman from Magdala.

Matthew: [wearily] How much does she owe?

Simon Peter: Nothing! And nor do we! We caught nothing, no catch, no money. We're not paying taxes for thin air!

Mary Magdalene: [muttering] I told the emperor. I told the emperor about you.

Mary Magdalene: [rambling] Thieves! You think I don't see you? The emperor, he told me... I know! Oh!

[looks towards workers]

Mary Magdalene: Oh lovely.

Carpenter: [mockingly] Lovely!

[they laugh]

Foreman: Back to work!

Mary Magdalene: [smiling at Foreman] You like nice things?

Foreman: Get out!

[shoves Mary to the ground]

Foreman: Out!

Mary Magdalene: [screams] Agh!

[Foreman goes to strike her with a scourge, is blocked by Jesus]

Tamar: [points to Jesus] Father.

Mary Magdalene: [whimpering] Mmm...

[Jesus kneels in front of Mary, but she runs away]

Jairus: [dismissive] This is how it is in Sepphoris, an unholy place for the synagogue!

Tamar: Father!

Virgin Mary: I am alone now, share my table.

Mary Magdalene: I am a woman of sin.

Virgin Mary: You will share my table.

Mary Magdalene: I have done much evil.

Virgin Mary: Child, God knows evil exists as well as good. Just as there is light and darkness. Evil exists that we may be the better for it.

Mary Magdalene: [after Christ leaves her in the garden] He is risen.

Mary Magdalene: Will you speak to your son for me?

Virgin Mary: [humbled by the request] Intercede...

Mary Magdalene: [Speaking to herself] I am LUST! Hold me fast, Mary - my arms are the gates of life! I am GREED! I drain hearts, but I fill thy purse - let Him not destroy me! Keep me, Mary - I am PRIDE! Through me thou hast enslaved Kings! We are GLUTTONY-INDOLENCE-ENVY-ANGER! We teach thee to forget, and to hate, and to consume!

Mary Magdalene: Harness my zebras - gift of the Nubian King! This Carpenter shall learn that he cannot hold a man from Mary Magdalene!

Mary Magdalene: Where is this vagabond carpenter?

Mary Magdalene: Go fetch my richest perfumes!

Mary Magdalene: I've been living to see you, dying to see you, but it shouldn't be like this! This was unexpected. What do I do now? Oh, could we start again, please?

Woman: I think I've seen you somewhere... I remember! You were with that man they took away; I recognize your face.

Peter: You've got the wrong man, lady! I don't know him! And I wasn't where he was tonight, never near the place.

Man: That's strange, for I am sure I saw you with him. You were right by his side, and yet you denied.

Peter: I tell you I was never, ever with him!

Soldier: But I saw you too; it looked just like you!

Peter: I don't know him!

Mary Magdalene: Peter, don't you know what you just said? You've gone and called him dead.

Peter: I had to do it, don't you see? Or else they'd go for me!

Mary Magdalene: It's what he told us you would do. I wonder how he knew?

Mary Magdalene: I don't know how to love him. I don't know why he moves me. He's a man, he's just a man. And I've had so many men before, in very many ways, he's just one more.

Mary Magdalene: I'll keep your secret. I promise!

Mary Magdalene: I was in a deep pit, falling faster and faster, never knowing when I would hit the bottom that would put an end to it all.

Mary Magdalene: Haven't you done enough? Hasn't he done enough for you?