Mary, mother of Jesus
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Mother of Jesus of Nazareth. Present at the crucifixion and entrusted to the disciple John; numbered among the disciples gathered before Pentecost.
Why Mary, mother matters
Mary is the first disciple. She said yes before anyone else, watched her son die, and was still in the upper room at Pentecost when the church started. Luke clearly got his infancy material from her or someone close to her — those chapters read like family memory. The later church spent centuries arguing about her titles (Theotokos, ever-virgin, immaculate) and those arguments were never really about her — they were about Christ. If Jesus is fully God and fully man from conception, then his mother carries God in her womb, and the church had to find language for that. The Magnificat is also the most politically radical hymn in scripture.
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Common questions
- Who was Mary, mother of Jesus?
- Mary, mother of Jesus (?–50) — Mother of Jesus of Nazareth. Present at the crucifixion and entrusted to the disciple John; numbered among the disciples gathered before Pentecost.
- Who did Mary, mother of Jesus meet?
- John the Apostle.
Sources for biography
- Gospel of Luke 1-2 primary
- Gospel of John 19:25-27 primary
- Acts of the Apostles 1:14 primary
documented connections(2)
- knew of Jesus of NazarethMary is the mother of Jesus per the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke; present at the wedding at Cana, the crucifixion, and with the disciples before Pentecost.Gospel of Luke 1:26-2:52 · Gospel of John 2:1-12; 19:25-27 · Acts of the Apostles 1:14
- met John the ApostleFrom the cross Jesus entrusted his mother to the Beloved Disciple, who took her into his own home (John 19:26-27).Gospel of John 19:26-27