`   ``For some Christians, Mary was believed to have been the same woman that Jesus had rescued from being stoned to death. However most modern scholars believe that the prostitute Jesus rescued and Mary were two seperate persons. However the Mel Gibson movie The Passion of the Christ had portrayed the prostitute and Mary as the same person.`` Is this ``prostitute`` the woman taken in adultery? Some Christians have historically been discouraged from reading Scripture on their own: could this still be true among some sects?  `