Sola Scriptura-10

The Church of Rome has created a totally false Mary. This will be a difficult truth to many, but the truth shall set us all free.

John 2:1  On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; 2:2  and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 

Joh 2:3  When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus *said to Him, "They have no wine." 

2:4  And Jesus *said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come." 2:5  His mother *said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it." 

This event is one of the first recorded events in Jesus’s adult life. While John identifies Mary as the mother of Jesus, Jesus refers to her a ‘woman’.

John 19:26  When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" :27  Then He *said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own household. 

While on the cross, Jesus once again referred to Mary as ‘woman’ yet told John to consider her a mother! This would seem kind of heartless or even inappropriate. Was there no real affection for Mary as His mother?

Matthew 13:53  When Jesus had finished these parables, He departed from there. :54  He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? :55  "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? :56  "And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" 

It would seem that everyone knew that Mary was His mother and that he had brothers and sisters. These siblings would have been the result of Mary and Joseph’s union as husband and wife. There is nothing strange or unusual about Mary and Joseph having a family.

Matthew 26:6  Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper, :7  a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table. :8  But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, "Why this waste? :9  "For this perfume might have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor." 

:10  But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good deed to Me.:11  "For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me. :12  "For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial. 

:13  "Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."

Of all the women in the Gospels, only this woman is singled out for remembrance. Who is this woman?

John 11:1  Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. :2  It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 

There is not two such events. Mary, the sister of Lazarus and Martha, anointed Jesus with perfume and tears. Of all the women, she alone is to be remembered for this act of compassion.

Mark 15:46  Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. :47  Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He was laid. 

Mary is just mentioned as one who sought to know where Jesus was being buried. She was not one who came to His tomb early in the morning.

Acts 1:12  Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. :13  When they had entered the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. :14  These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. 

Mary is singled out, but other women were also there in the upper room. This is the last mention of Mary in the Bible.

What are we to come to understand about Mary?

More next Saturday.