Who Really Was Mary Magdalene

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Who really was Mary Magdalene?

Apparently her status in early Christianity was high. The Bible gives us clues about her importance. After his resurrection, Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalene not Peter, according to the Gospel of John. In this scene there are many things that may reveal that Mary was a lot more than a follower. She was scene to be the wife, according to her words.
On Easter Sunday morning, she visits Jesus' sepulcher, either alone or with other women, and discovers it empty. Then she is solo at the empty tomb. Mary Magdalene asks the gardener “where have you taken his body and I will go and remove it”. Only the spouse would have been allowed to do such a thing back around this time. Clearly Jesus and Mary had a special relationship. That’s when the gardener (Jesus) calls her by her first name “Mary” which again only the spouse of a woman could call a woman by her first name, because it was disrespectful. Otherwise you were supposed to refer to a woman as woman. Up until now Mary did not recognize the man she spoke with, it was when Jesus said her name she recognized his voice and ran to cling to him saying Rabooni, meaning my love: intimate words of choice, wouldn’t you say? That’s when Jesus replied saying not to cling to him until He ascends to the heavens. He tells her to tell the disciples of the resurrection.
Mary then goes to see the disciples. Mary Magdalene announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord." In other scriptures, her name is first in the list of witnesses. Mary Magdalene was the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Tradition has labeled her a prostitute, but there is nothing in the Bible to support this view and too much to dispute it.
The only problem is that it turns out that she wasn't bad, just interpreted that way. See a prostitute was almost any women not married (or if married not rented out or sold) or working for the high class people. Mary Ma...