{"id":2137,"asset_id":"2449","title":"After Jesus died -\u00a0Mario Murillo\u00a0|\u00a0Apr 19, 2025\u00a0|\u00a0Mary Magdalene","alias":"after-jesus-died-mario-murillo-apr-19-2025-mary-magdalene","introtext":"<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0_tb_body\">\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_0_tb_body et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_post_title et_pb_post_title_0_tb_body et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_center\">\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_title_container\">\r\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">After Jesus died -&nbsp;<span class=\"author vcard\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mariomurillo.org\/author\/mmblogger\/\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Posts by Mario Murillo\">Mario Murillo<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<span class=\"published\">Apr 19, 2025<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mariomurillo.org\/category\/mary-magdalene\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Mary Magdalene<\/a><\/h1>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_1_tb_body et_pb_row_3-4_1-4\">\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_column_1_tb_body et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\r\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_post_content et_pb_post_content_0_tb_body\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the greatest cruelties\u2014happened to Mary Magdalene.&nbsp; You will soon understand why her story means more now than ever before.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For starters, Jesus rescued her from what so many women faced in those days. Now she is redeemed and planted into a family of indescribable love.&nbsp; Things would never be the same.&nbsp; Her nights of remorse, her days of futility, her emptiness, were now all distant memories.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next three years were a life she could never have imagined. Crisscrossing Judea.&nbsp; Hanging on Jesus\u2019 every word. Weeping gloriously over every miracle.&nbsp; Everyday, she woke up a more powerful and joyous woman of God than the day before. She thought it would go on forever.<\/p>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Everyday, she woke up a more powerful and joyous woman of God than the day before. She thought it would go on forever.<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>People use the phrase \u201cnothing could be worse\u2026\u201d&nbsp; I will use it this way: Nothing could be worse than to be in hell, and then taste heaven, only to return to hell.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/e4t9u9q2qqf.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/prayer-woman-300x208.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1249px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e4t9u9q2qqf.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/prayer-woman-980x678.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 980w, &lt;a href=\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"153\" style=\"float: left;\" wp-content=\"\" prayer-woman-480x332=\"\" hspace=\"10\/\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>On that fateful Friday, it all went horribly, horribly wrong.&nbsp;&nbsp;How could the One Who called the dead back to life and silenced a storm at sea, be arrested?&nbsp; Can the One who gave words of exquisite beauty, love and wisdom, be tortured and killed?&nbsp; No one wanted to save Jesus more than Mary.&nbsp; She felt&nbsp; horror and helplessness.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That night, profound hope with threatened by bitterness and disappointment.&nbsp; Evil said, \u201cit would have been better if you had never met Him!\u201d&nbsp; Sleep came when exhaustion became more powerful than sorrow.&nbsp; &nbsp;She was too wounded and drained to even think about what she should do with her life.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mary is of special importance to me today, because her testimony is the best one I can think of this Easter. Mary\u2019s miracle is the miracle the American church needs now!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mariomurillo.org\/2025\/04\/19\/after-jesus-died\/?mc_cid=6c872bb26e&amp;mc_eid=597fb59a8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","fulltext":"","state":1,"catid":"8","created":"2025-04-19 14:38:42","created_by":"873","created_by_alias":"","modified":"2025-04-19 14:41:21","modified_by":"873","checked_out":"873","checked_out_time":"2025-04-19 14:38:42","publish_up":"2025-04-19 14:38:42","publish_down":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","images":"{\"image_intro\":\"\",\"float_intro\":\"\",\"image_intro_alt\":\"\",\"image_intro_caption\":\"\",\"image_fulltext\":\"\",\"float_fulltext\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_alt\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_caption\":\"\"}","urls":"{\"urla\":false,\"urlatext\":\"\",\"targeta\":\"\",\"urlb\":false,\"urlbtext\":\"\",\"targetb\":\"\",\"urlc\":false,\"urlctext\":\"\",\"targetc\":\"\"}","attribs":"{\"article_layout\":\"\",\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_tags\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"info_block_position\":\"\",\"info_block_show_title\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_parent_category\":\"\",\"link_parent_category\":\"\",\"show_associations\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"link_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_publish_date\":\"\",\"show_item_navigation\":\"\",\"show_icons\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_hits\":\"\",\"show_noauth\":\"\",\"urls_position\":\"\",\"alternative_readmore\":\"\",\"article_page_title\":\"\",\"show_publishing_options\":\"\",\"show_article_options\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_backend\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_frontend\":\"\"}","version":2,"ordering":"0","metakey":"","metadesc":"","access":"1","hits":"0","metadata":"{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"rights\":\"\",\"xreference\":\"\"}","featured":"1","language":"*","xreference":"","note":""}