I was just reading in my chronological Bible about the crucifixion and saw something I’d never noticed before that started me thinking. John 19:25 says, “ … standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, …” Jesus’s aunt was at His crucifixion. The Bible talks about Mary, Joseph, and Jesus’s brothers. It talks about Elizabeth, a more distant relative. I think this is the only mention of anyone from Mary’s home growing up.
Did Mary tell her parents or sister about being visited by and angel and told she would mother the Messiah by the Holy Spirit or did she remain silent because it was so unbelievable? When she became pregnant, did she then try to explain to her family, but get rejected? Was Jesus’s aunt ever around when Jesus was growing up, or was her first appearance due to her feeling bad for her sister who had previously lost her husband and now was loosing her eldest son in the most horrific way?
In the whole scheme of things, these aren’t critical questions, but it still tells us something about what Mary went through having a child out of wedlock, seemingly through sin.
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