Mary’s Grevious Mistake

Mary's Grevious Mistake

(The accidental utterance of the Tongue)

There is in scripture a "truth" recorded but NOT written on the page. Below is that truth but one cannot see the truth unless their spiritual eyes are open. What Mary the mother of Jesus allowed from NOT being aware of her words was a misleading statement that in the ears of those who heard it subliminally planted a deception within their minds as to who Jesus really was. When the Passover was over and Jesus' family left the area of Jerusalem on their way back home to Nazareth, Mary his mother discovered that Jesus was not in their company and rallied together with Joseph her husband and the stepfather of Jesus to return back to Jerusalem to find him. Jesus was about 12 years of age at the time and a curious little boy who more than likely knew his parents had left the area but had a greater truth to present to those learned "doctors" i.e. Rabbis' who taught in the Synagogues of Jerusalem and that is where Mary found Him after searching for three days.

Those three days for the Hebrews was the day they left, the day they returned, and the day they searched for Jesus in Jerusalem. It was NOT three "full days." The biblical day's journey is between 20-25 miles they walked towards Nazareth, noticed that Jesus wasn't with their company, there was no tarrying in their return journey back to Jerusalem as Mary and any mother would want to find her son quickly. So the day they turned back towards Jerusalem was the same day they left for Nazareth and covered about 40-50 miles by the time the got back to Jerusalem and was the second day after they left. The third day was the day they searched the market places and other areas in their search for Jesus.

When His mother found Him she was so distraught in her search, that Satan took advantage of her concern and without the knowledge of Mary because of her concern for Jesus' safety he i.e. Satan used the mouth of the mother of Jesus to "plant doubt" in the minds of those "doctors of the law" teachers in Israels Synagogues that "Jesus" was NOT really the actual "Son of God" that He would later be proclaimed to be by Peter. Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

The Deceptive Statement!

In Luk 2:48 her i.e. Marys' first question was "Son, [the capital letter here in the word Son, implied by the translator identified that Mary acknowledged Jesus for who He really was that of Jesus as the Son of God] why hast thou thus dealt with us?" Then came the "deceptive statement" made to the boy Jesus was "behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing." Here Mary using the word "father" with the lowercase (f) implies that Joseph was the real father of Jesus, to which if anyone knew the real truth of the matter Mary Jesus' mother would, but she used the word "father" that implied that Joseph was His father in the ears of those "doctors and teachers of the law" in Jerusalem. This was Satan's attempt to deceive those same teachers in Jerusalem to disbelieve in the child Jesus as the Son of God.

Jesus immediately recognized "His mother's error" in her speech to Him in front of these learned men of Jerusalem and He set her straight immediately by His return reply to His mother Mary. Jesus said to her in verse "Luke 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? Here in His reply to His mother Jesus spoke with the authority of the Son of God in the use of His word (Father's) with the capital (F) in contradiction to the use of the word (father) that His mother used which identified Him NOT only as the Son of God reminding His mother of the fact, but neither Joseph, Mary, nor the doctors of the law understood at the time. Luk 2:50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

Later after Mary pondered the statement Jesus made realized what He was saying to her and she realized her verbal mistake but she kept it to herself probably from self-shame that she was so vulnerable with her speech. It identified Him as the Son of God to His mother and those same "doctors of the law" in whom He was interacting with, but only after Mary pondered the statement did she fully understand what Jesus was saying to her.

Mary later understood what Jesus was saying to her and the scripture records her mindset after Jesus sets her straight on this matter. Luk 2:51(d) "but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." Mary knew that her statement "thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing" was a big mistake on her behalf as it took the minds of the hearers other than Jesus to believe that all He was was a carpenters son from Nazareth, and not really the Son of God, and Mary once she realized that Satan had used her own mouth and words spoken to plant doubt in the minds of the "doctors of the law" realized what she had done, and she "pondered the interaction" before them in her heart i.e. within her mind.

This is just one of many scripture truths that many reads, yet read over the unseen "truths" within the verse. The devil is so bold as to use the mouth of the Lord even to deceive and he will use yours and mine the same way if we are not really careful about what we say, and even when we are careful, he will still do the same with us if we don't allow God to be in control of the tongue.

Luk 2:41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

Luk 2:42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

Luk 2:43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

Luk 2:44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.

Luk 2:45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

Luk 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Luk 2:47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

Luk 2:48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

Luk 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Luk 2:50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

Luk 2:51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Luk 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

The WATCHMAN !!!