More Mary Magdalene For the sake of brevity, I would like to respond to three letters to the editor in the June 2, 2018, edition of News Weekly in one letter. John Charlton says that the Gospels of Luke and John both say that, with permission of Pilate, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus came and took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in strips of linen with copious amounts of aloes and embalmed it. Sorry, Mr Charlton. Jesus’ body was not embalmed and, if you look at the Sindone (Shroud of…
