Subject: Is this the 'Complete Christian'? |
Bible Note: You said: When I said she knew he had to die, I was speaking about her pain at the time of his persecution. At the foot of his cross. Her acceptance of God's will. No where in the bible does it say anything about her crying or carrying on. You are right. It doesn't say "Mary wept or carried on". It is very much implied though. Luke 23:27-29 And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed ("kopto" to beat the breast in grief; wail, lament, mourn) and lamented ("threneo" mourn, lament) Him. But Jesus, turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep ("klaio" wail aloud, sob) for Me, but weep for yourselves and your children. For indeed the days are coming..." John 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother. and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Mary was one of those who "followed" Jesus, and I assume one of the "daughters of Jerusalem" that Jesus referred to just before He died.(Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!) When she and Joseph presented Jesus in the Temple, she was told by Simeon that a "sword would pierce through her own soul". I would expect that it would have almost broken Mary's heart to watch her son die on that cross. Lisa, do you think Mary was too "strong" to weep or mourn the persecution and death of her son? Or that His pain would not have effected her since she had heard His gospel of life? In John 20:9 it states that the apostles did not yet know He would rise from the dead, and no where does it say that Mary did either. These are my reasons for thinking that Mary wept and mourned her son's death. Could you explain your reasons for thinking otherwise? |