@bovivinator I have briefly done more research, via Wikipedia, which I am sure is totally correct about everything.
Whether or not most of the Mary's are different Mary's, it does appear to have lent itself to confusion over the years, because. That's a lot of Mary's. Like, Martha and her sister Mary here is NOT the same Mary as Mary of Bethany, so says Wikipedia, because they don't mention having a brother named Lazarus.
However, Mary of Bethany does also have a sister named Martha (what are the odds) as well as a brother named Lazarus. Given the connection to Lazarus in the movie, this was probably taken into consideration. The Lazarus door to the tomb and him being one of the other dudes who famously comes back from the dead.
Wikipedia also says that Mary of Bethany anoints Jesus' feet with oils. This is one of the handful of things I know about, Bible-wise (It was in 'Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal' which I assume was accurate in every way) but I was under the impression this was Mary Magdalene. According to Wikipedia, there was debate about that for a long time as well.
So at one time or another, people were unsure if Mary Magdalene WAS Mary of Bethany as well as this "unnamed sinful woman," which would also make her the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
Wikipedia goes on to say that in the Gospel of Luke, there is a second feet anointing (I shant make a joke) from a sinful woman (I assume this is THE unnamed sinful woman). She weeps, her tears fall upon Jesus' feet and seeing this, she wipes them with her hair.
Now, THIS is the basis for the scene that is depicted in the book I read. But it's clearly a conflation of the two feet anointings. It's performed by Mary Magdalene, but in Bethany before the death of Jesus which they all know is coming. She weeps and then uses her hair to wipe the tears and wash his feet.
The book is largely comedic, but this scene is very sad and emotional for both Mary and our narrator Biff, because they both love their friend and they know he's going to die. This entire part of the novel, actually, takes a quite serious turn. Hard to turn "your childhood friend is horribly martyred on a cross" into a joke. Good book though.
The fact that the two scenes are conflated in this book seems to suggest that this isn't unusual, right? That's probably why people started putting Mary Magdalene together with the sinful woman, when in theory it wasn't Mary Magdalene involved in either feet anointing at all, possibly.
I don't have a conclusion or anything I just think this is all really interesting. I feel like there's a movie or something here. "Hail Mary and Mary and Mary and Martha, too"
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