Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah

For Epiphanius, therefore, the Collyridians were committing idolatry by offering the sacrificial bread of the Eucharist to Mary.

She is also the queen mother of the Messiah’s kingdom.22

before her pain came she was delivered of a man-child” (Isaiah 66:7)…

New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan: “Implicit in the title ‘woman’ is that her full destiny is to be the ‘woman’ of Genesis 3:15.”27

Mary is the “woman” of Genesis whose “offspring” will conquer the serpent (Genesis 3:15).

In the Gospel of John, Mary appears twice: once during the wedding at Cana (John 2:1–12), and once during the crucifixion of Jesus (John 19:25–27).

scholars arrive at seven days is by interpreting John’s references sequentially and adding the first four days to the “third day” (4 Days + 3 Days = 7 Days).

Contrary to what some people believe, the Catholic Church did not get its teachings about Mary from paganism. It got them from Judaism.

We have no other examples of a Jewish man addressing his own mother this way.

Just as Benjamin is the “beloved (Greek ēgapēmenos) of the LORD” (Deuteronomy 33:12), so John is the “disciple whom Jesus loved (Greek ēgapa)” (John 19:26).