Mary Magdalene-Wife and Lover?

The life of Mary Magdalene is a mystery to me. Even though I've attended CCD my entire childhood, I've never learned who she was. I've heard her name before, but it never stood of any interest to me. After Professor Matt's musical performance last class (Wohoo! Encore?) about Magdalene, I was intrigued to learn more about her. The lyrics and notes of Richard Shindell's "The Ballad of Mary Magdalene" were so beautiful, and I decided that it was time to do my research.


My research left me with mixed emotions, for I never believed that Jesus might have had a love.


According to the website, The Nazarene Way of Essenic Studies, Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' devoted women followers:

"She attended him to Calvary, stood weeping at the foot of the cross, and was the first to see the Christ risen [Jesus' Resurrection]. Extra-biblical and Gnostic traditions about Mary Magdalene holds that she was the wife of Jesus and pregnant with his child at the time of his death, a fact which was omitted by later revisionist editors of the Gospels. Interpreted allegorically, Luke-Acts reveals their marriage, a daughter, and two sons." 

Could this be true? 

Richard Shindell believes so:

"A love like this will come but once 

This I do believe 
And I’ll not see his like again 
As I live and breathe 
And I’m sorry if I might offend 
But I will never see 
How the tenderness I shared with him 
Became a heresy"

To add to this, Mary's sorrow that she expressed as Jesus lay dead on the cross could be the response of a "grieving wife and widow." Also, Jesus might have appeared to Mary first after his Resurrection because Mary "was his beloved and in most need of consolation."

I think that it would actually make sense for Jesus to have a relationship with Mary; after all, he was human! On the other hand, I am unsure because I never viewed Jesus as the type of man who would have a lover. Also, if it is true that Jesus and Mary were married, why are their children not mentioned in the Bible? Or are they? I feel that I am discovering more secrets than answers in regard to the Bible. 

http://www.womeninthebible.net/images/MM_14_Cosimo.jpg

http://www.thenazareneway.com/index.htm