Mention Mary in any claimed Christian environment, and what first comes
to the table is the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ; the saviour. In this
my latest of write ups, I walk you through five other Mary’s apart from the
known, Virgin Mary.
What’s worth emulating, apart from their individual contributions to the
growth of the Christ ministry is their individual moral attributions.
First to discuss is the Virgin Mary. Obviously, she is the most popular
among the lot for her role played in bringing into being, what arguably will be
taken as the largest religion in the world, Christianity. As captured by
scriptures; she is mother to Jesus Christ, the saviour of the universe.
Luke 1: 30, 31, 34 and 35… “The angel said to her, don’t be afraid.
Mary, for you have found favour with God. Behold, you will conceive in your
womb and bring forth a son, and will call his name, “Jesus”
She is the only lady, apart from fictionist characters who in history
conceived, and gave -birth still a virgin.34-
Mary said to her, “how can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”35- The Angel
answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most high
will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be
called the son of God
Mary, the virgin as known was also a relative or sister to Elizabeth
(the wife of Zacharias, a chief priest) Luke
1:36 “…Behold, Elizabeth, your relative…
The sixteenth book of Romans also
gives an account of a Mary who also lived in bible times. Much was not said as
to whom she was. But she for the purpose of this write up deserves the mention.
She was by way of recognition mentioned
by Tertius, a servant of Christ, in an epistle to the church in Romans as
someone who really laboured for the course of the kingdom work. Romans 16:6, “Greet Mary, who laboured much
for us”
The book of Acts also gives another account of a Mary, mother to John,
whose surname scripture says is Mark. Acts
12:12, “Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John
whose surname was Mark”. It was in her house, the saints gathered in the
observance of their prayer activities during the arrest of Peter the Apostle by
King Herod.
She is the first to meet Christ after he has risen from the death. She
took responsibility for the announcement of Christ’s resurrection, and
subsequent ascendance to the father to his disciples. One of her most
remarkable experience with Christ was the opportunity of having been delivered
of seven evil spirits. She is none other than Mary Magdalene.
Another Mary worth noting is Mary, who is sister to Martha and Lazarus,
The one Christ rose from the dead. She exemplified a soul whose delight is in
sitting under the feet of Christ to listen to the message of life, the gospel
of the kingdom. Mary, unlike her sister Martha, was a typical of that who took
no interest in many a fleeting thing of the world to the neglect of the gospel
of Christ’s kingdom.
John 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his
mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary
the wife of Cleophas …, Luke 24:13-32
The final but not the least, the Mary identified as being wife of
Cleophas; also a follower of Christ in the early church days.
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