Mary Magdalene (2018)

Lubna Azabal: Susannah

Quotes 

• James : Mary. He's waiting. Look.

  Jesus : [to mary]  What shall I teach?

  Mary Magdalene : Are we so different from men you must teach us different things?

  Susannah : We are women. Our lives are not our own.

  Jesus : Your spirit's your own. And you alone answer for that. And your spirit is precious to God. As precious as that of your husband... or your father.

  Susannah : Then who should we obey? If God commands one thing, but our husbands, our fathers tell us another?

  Jesus : You must follow God.

  Mary Magdalene : So are we to defy them and leave our lives behind?

  Jesus : Yes. Though they judge you... persecute you... you must forgive them.

  Susannah : Forgive them? A year ago a woman from Cana... many of us knew her here. She was young. Her husband found her with another man... and he and his brothers... they dragged her to the river and they raped her. And after they were done... they drowned her. In the court before they were sentenced one of them repented, "God, forgive me." But I'm not God, father.

  Jesus : How does it feel to carry that hate in your heart? Does it lessen as the months go by? It seeps into your days... your nights... until it consumes everything you once were. Those men, they too, were filled with hate. You are strong sister, but you must forgive. There is no other way to enter the kingdom of God. Will you join us? Will you be born anew?