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Magdalene means someone from Magdala.   Mag'dala. (a tower). The chief manuscripts and versions exhibit the name as Magadan, as in the Revised Version. Into the limits of Magadan, Christ came by boat, over the Lake of Gennesareth, after his miracle of feeding the four thousand on the Mountain of the eastern side, Mat_15:39, and from thence, he returned in the same boat to the opposite shore. Mat 15:39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala. Mar 8:10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha. In the parallel narrative of St. Mark, Mar_8:10, we find the "parts of Dalmanutha," on the western edge of the Lake of Gennesareth. The Magdala, which conferred her name on Mary the Magdalene one of the numerous migdols, that is, towers, which stood in Palestine, was probably the place, of that name, which is mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud, as near Tiberias, and this again, is as probably the modern el-Mejdel, a  little Muslim village, of twenty huts on the water's edge at the southeast corner of the plain of Gennesareth. It is now the only inhabited place on this plain.           (Mat 27:56) Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. (Mat 27:61) And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulcher. (Mat 28:1) In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. (Mar 15:40) There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; (Mar 15:47) And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid. (Mar 16:1) And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. (Mar 16:9) Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. (Luk 8:2) And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, (Luk 24:10) It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. (Joh 19:25) Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. (Joh 20:1) The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher. (Joh 20:18) Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.