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When Jesus began teaching and
proclaiming the kingdom of God,
the people were saying he has
an unclean spirit. They thought
He was demon possessed.
Mary and her sons thought that
Jesus was out of His mind. They
went to the place where Jesus
was teaching the crowd and they
attempted to take Him home.

(MARK 3:30-35) Because they
were saying “He has unclean spirit
and His mother and brothers
arrived and standing outside they
sent word to Him, “Behold, your
mother and your brothers are
outside looking for you.” And
answering them, He said, “Who
are my mother and my brothers?”
And looking about those who
were sitting around Him, He said,
Jesus was conceived by the power of the “Behold my mother and my broth-
Holy Spirit? (LUKE 1:26-37) There were ers for whoever does the will of God, he
many miracles that happened when Jesus is my brother and sister and mother.” Je-
was born. There were wise men that visit- sus did not give special attention to Mary.
ed Jesus who gave their gifts. There were He even denied Mary and his brothers.
shepherds who reported that they saw and
heard an Angel proclaiming that the Savior Jesus did not agree with the woman
was born. There was the dream of Joseph in the crowd who shouted about Mary
of an Angel warning them to leave because being specially blest. (LUKE 11:27-28)
Herod was seeking to kill the newborn baby And it came about while He said these
Jesus. Why didn’t they know that Jesus things, one of the women in the crowd
was the promised Messiah? God purposely raised her voice and said to Him, “Bless-
erased those happenings from Mary and ed is the womb that bore you, and the
Joseph’s memory otherwise they would breast at which you nursed.” But He said,
have mentioned those things to their chil- “On the contrary, blessed are those who
dren and they would have believed Jesus. hear the Word of God, and observe it.”

The answer is in (1 CORINTHIANS 2:7-8), We read in the Bible that Jesus is God
“But we speak God’s wisdom in a mys- the Creator. He was the one who created
tery, the hidden wisdom which God Mary. Mary was just an ordinary woman
predestined before the ages to our used by God as a vessel. Mary herself
glory; the wisdom which none of the needs a Savior, she said in (LUKE 1:46-47),
rulers of this age has understood; for if “My soul exalt the Lord, and my spirit has
they had understood it, they would not rejoiced in God my Savior.”
have crucified the Lord of Glory”. It is clear
that God hides it so no one at that time Jesus’ family finally believed in Him when
remembered about the miraculous birth He was resurrected. They have just
of Jesus. Mary herself did not remember. realized that Jesus was not an ordinary
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