11.玛达肋纳的第一次皈依

耶稣和祂的门徒前往加里肋亚，

在那里祂继续施教和行神迹。

洗者若翰现在不再施洗了，而是传讲耶稣的道，

并把所有要求施洗的人介绍给耶稣的门徒。

Jesus taught in Jezrael and performed many miracles before a great concourse of people. All the disciples from Galilee were here assembled to meet Him. Nathanael Chased, Nathanael the bridegroom, Peter, James, John, the sons of Mary Cleophas, all were there. Lazarus, Martha, Seraphia (Veronica) and Johanna Chusa, who had come before from Jerusalem, had visited Magdalen at her castle of Magdalum to persuade her to go with them to Jezrael in order to see, if not to hear, the wise, the admirable, the most eloquent, and most beautiful Jesus, of whom the whole country was full. Magdalen had yielded to the persuasions of the women and, surrounded by much vain display, accompanied them thither. As she stood at the window of an inn gazing down into the street, Jesus and His disciples came walking by. He looked at her gravely as He passed, with a glance that pierced her soul. An unusual feeling of confusion came over her. Violently agitated, she rushed from the inn and, impelled by an overpowering sense of her own misery, hid in a house wherein lepers and women afflicted with bloody flux found a refuge. It was a kind of hospital under the superintendence of a Pharisee. The people of the inn from which Magdalen had fled, knowing the life she was leading, cried out: “That’s the right place for her, among lepers and people tormented with bloody flux!” But Magdalen had fled to the house of the leprous through that feeling of intense humiliation roused in her soul by the glance of Jesus, for she had made her way into that respectable position among the other women through a motive of pride, not wishing to stand in the crowd of poor, common people. Accompanied by Lazarus, she returned to Magdalum with Martha and the other women.   (Vol. 2, pp. 78-79)

耶稣在依次勒尔施教，并在一大群人面前行了许多神迹。所有从加里肋亚来的门徒都聚集在这里迎接祂。纳塔乃耳、新郎纳塔乃耳、伯多禄、雅各伯、若望、玛利亚克罗帕的两个儿子，都在那里。拉匝禄、玛尔大、塞拉菲亚 (维洛尼加) 和之前从耶路撒冷来的约安纳雇撒，都到玛格达伦城堡拜访玛达肋纳，劝她和他们一起去依次勒尔，看看是不是像传说的那样，是一位明智且令人钦佩的，最雄辩的，最美丽的耶稣，整个村庄都因祂而人满为患。玛达肋纳被妇女们说服，在一大堆虚张声势的的包围下，陪着她们去了。当她站在一家客栈的窗户前，向下凝视着街道时，耶稣和祂的门徒走过来。祂走过时，神色凝重地看着她，这一瞥穿透了她的灵魂。一种不寻常的迷茫感涌上她的心头。极度的焦虑使她从客栈冲出，在强烈的苦楚感驱使下，她躲进了一所房子里，那是麻风病人和患有血漏病的妇女避难的地方。这是一种在法利赛人监管下的医院。玛达肋纳逃离的那家客栈里的人，知道她过着什么样的生活，大声喊道：“在麻风病人和被血漏折磨的人们中间，这正是适合她的地方！”但是，玛达肋纳因耶稣的一瞥，而在她灵魂中激起强烈的羞耻感，她逃到了麻风病人的家中，由于她出于骄傲的动机，在其他妇女中获得了受人尊敬的地位，不愿站在一群贫穷的普通人中。在拉匝禄的陪同下，她与玛尔大和其他妇女一起回到玛格达伦。