mary treasured these things in her heart meaning

Simeon calls their “rising” (2:34 everywhere else in Luke-Acts this means the By contrast, he would be for others a promise of resurrection, what Would become a stumbling block for many, what Simeon calls their “falling” (2:34 Ĭf. The hypocrisy of many religious people (5:22 6:8) and even the wrong thoughts Of people (2:35), using Greek terms that Like later uses for Jesus revealing God has appointed Jesus to expose what is really in the hearts Simeon’s message underlines a steep price to He is not merelyĮxpressing everyone’s hopes for the child. Might want to hear, or what Simeon might want to come to pass. The Spirit is saying-not simply making a “positive confession” about what Mary

Yet Simeon also prophesies that this child willįace opposition and that Mary will face pain (2:34-35). This message also fits a theme that Luke develops further This goes well beyond what Mary and her husband would have That this child, God’s Messiah, will embody salvation for all peoples (LukeĢ:26-32 cf. Soon after this event Simeon in the temple prophesies The most special of all-the one we all must depend on. Mary, more than any other mother, had good reason to know that her child was It will soon be usedįor God’s prophetic message to Simeon (2:29). To her (1:37-38), for God’s wonderful work for Zachariah and Elizabeth (1:65),Īnd for the angels’ message to the shepherds (2:15, 17). Kept in her heart appears often in the preceding context, for Gabriel’s message The term used for the “matters” or “words” she Suggest that Mary is his source for this information certainly he met at leastīriefly with Jesus’s brother James, in Acts 21:18.)

(Luke might even tell about Mary’s memory of these events to The same thing later after the young Jesus’s encounter with Bible experts in Mary, however, preserved these matters in her heart (2:19). Many in Bethlehem marveled at the shepherds’ testimony Testimony confirmed the message that Mary had already received directly from theĪngel Gabriel (Luke 1:28-37). Said: this baby would be a savior, Christ the Lord (Luke 2:8-17)! This The shepherds testified about what the angels had Responded to clear revelations about Jesus’s identity and mission. But we can still learn some lessons from how Mary Jesus’s birth, of course, is special in a way

(This is also true for other deep relational losses, some of which my wife and I have experienced, but few losses run deeper than the loss of a child-something Mary would eventually experience.) This may be especially true for those who believe that God has shown them about their child’s destiny and, at least so far, things appear to be working differently. out of his memory,) and read it.Things and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2:19, NIV)Ĭhristmas is a joyful time for many parents, but also a time of grief for those who have lost children. ``he went to intercalate the year in Asia, and there was no Megilla (the book of Esther) there, and he wrote it, ( wblm), 'out of his heart', (i.e. That is, in her memory so the word is used in Jewish writings.

These things she treasured up, and preserved, Or things for this relates not only to the words of Christ, but to the whole history of his staying behind them at Jerusalem, of his sitting among the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions, to the astonishment of all. Where he, and his parents, had lived ever since their return from Egypt:įor though he thought fit to let them know, or, at least, put them in mind, that he had a Father in heaven, whose business he came about, and must do, and therefore did not judge it necessary to ask their leave to stay at Jerusalem on that account yet, as man, and willing to set an example of filial subjection to parents, he went along with them, and showed all dutiful respect unto them, yielding a ready and cheerful obedience to their commands, living with them, and working under them, and for them: and so he continued till he was about thirty years of age: From the temple, and from Jerusalem, which were on high ground:

Mary treasured these things in her heart meaning