Jesus' mother living at the time of the New Testament

Mary the mother of Jesus

Luke 1:26–56; 2:1–52; John 2:1–11; 19:25–27; Acts 1:14

A young woman of Nazareth, engaged to Joseph, to whom the angel Gabriel said, “you have found favor with God,” and that she would bear a son called Jesus, who would be “the Son of the Most High” and reign on David’s throne forever. She asked, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?” and, told that the Holy Spirit would come on her, answered, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word” (Luke 1:26–38). Elizabeth greeted her, “Blessed are you among women,” and Mary answered with her song, “My soul magnifies the Lord” (Luke 1:39–56).

She bore Jesus in Bethlehem and laid him in a feeding trough, took him to the temple, and kept the sayings about him in her heart (Luke 2:1–51). She was at Cana, stood by his cross, where he entrusted her to the disciple he loved, and was with the believers praying in the upper room after the ascension (John 2:1–5; 19:25–27; Acts 1:14). Luke’s genealogy, as this timeline reads it, is her line (Luke 3:23).

Chosen to bear the Son of God (Luke 1:30–33), she followed him to the cross, where he entrusted her to John (John 19:26–27), and prayed with the disciples before Pentecost (Acts 1:14), the last time Scripture mentions her. She was probably a young teenager at the annunciation. Her death isn't recorded; traditions place it in Jerusalem or Ephesus, some years after the ascension. Both ends of the bar are estimates.

Family

Father

Heli

Mother

Wife of Heli

Husband

Joseph the husband of Mary

Children

Jesus, James the brother of Jesus, Joses, Simon, Jude

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