"The preponderance of the evidence will prove the case. My intention with this book is to do just that, to show, as much as possible, all of this available information and to present it in such a way so as to prove to the unbiased observer the following. That the person described as "the desciple that Jesus loved" was Mary Magdalene. That she had been the one who had anointed Jesus as the Christ. That she had authored the fourth gospel, known as the gospel of John, and that she and Jesus were married." B. Woodward