“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.”
Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart — the voluntary obedience to his parents of the one who has just established his primary relationship with his Father is the theological paradox of the incarnation: the Son of God under parental authority in Nazareth. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart — the second treasuring (syneteei, she kept carefully) echoes 2:19. Mary's pondering of the accumulated events of Jesus' life is the contemplative thread running through the nativity narratives.
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