It is strange that in many verses and stories not only in the New Testament, but also in many Christian commentators’ texts, the authors avoid naming Mary as Jesus’ mother, but prefer to name her “Mary, the mother of James” instead! Luke, Matthew (?) and Mark mention her visiting Jesus’ tomb, while John ignores her.
I disregard that all the gospels contradict one another on the resurrection event and none of them mentions all the names of the women who visited Jesus’ tomb. Luke (24:1-5) mentions additionally “Joanna and the others (?)”. John (20:1) doesn’t mention but Mary Magdalene and Mark (16:1) mentions also Salome, while Matthew (28:1) mentions Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary”. (Who?)
We also read in Mark’s (chapter 16) that Jesus first appeared not to his mother, but to Mary Magdalene who didn’t recognize him and according to some apocryphal (the Gospel of Philip), “he used to kiss her in the mouth”! In Luke’s (chapter 24), two apostles (Cleopas and Simon) encounter first Jesus, but none of them recognized him either! In Matthew’s (chapter 28), Jesus met all the women who went to the tomb (Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary”). In John’s gospel (chapter 20), his mother Mary ignores his resurrection! Sic! Everybody knows it but his own mother and family!
It is noteworthy that the veneration of Mary by the church began to take shape in the early fourth century, with the phrase “Theotokos” (God-bearer) attributed to Athanasius and Gregory of Nazianzus. The title “Theotokos” was officially endorsed by the Council of Ephesus in A.D. 431. “Better late than never”!
Why such a disdain from the early authors of the Gospels?
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