New Testament and Mary: An Overview
New Testament and Mary, an Overview
The presence of Mary in the New Testament is discreet but theologically dense. The Gospel data are few in quantity, yet rich in meaning. For a complete article on the Gospels: The Gospels and Mary. For the Old Testament: Mary in the Old Testament.
The Lucan Corpus
Luke (Gospel + Acts) is the principal New Testament source on Mary. The Gospel contains: Annunciation, Visitation, Magnificat, Nativity, Presentation, Finding in the Temple. Acts mentions Mary in the Cenacle (Acts 1:14), the only post-Pentecost datum.
The Johannine Corpus
John mentions Mary at two moments (see: The Gospels and Mary): Cana (Jn 2) and Calvary (Jn 19). Revelation 12 presents the “Woman clothed with the sun,” a figure that tradition interprets as Mary and the Church.
Paul and the Virgin
Paul implicitly mentions Mary’s virginal motherhood in Galatians 4:4: “God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law.” The expression “born of a woman,” with no mention of a father, is read by exegetes as an allusion to the virginal conception. It is the most direct Pauline reference to Mary’s motherhood.
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Magisterium of the Church
Invenitur Maria in Novo Testamento: in Evangeliis Nativitatis, in ministerio publico Iesu, sub Cruce, et in Cenaculo Pentecostes.
Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Const. Lumen Gentium, no. 58
📚 Literal translation: Mary appears in the New Testament: in the Gospels of the Nativity, in the public ministry of Jesus, beneath the Cross, and in the Cenacle of Pentecost.
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