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Besides the information already revealed here about Mary what else does Scripture say?  In Mark we see Jesus healing and crowds of both the relentless apostate religious rulers and leaders and the regular people many wanting to be healed. And it becomes overwhelming at one point.  This is knowledge that comes back to His family - comes back to His family. They’re in Nazareth; they’re just not a long walk away, and they are beginning to be concerned about Him. Probably Mary is concerned about Him. His half-brothers and half-sisters, who were the children of Joseph and Mary, they’re concerned about Him. And so, it tells us, in verse 21, “When His own people heard” – when His own people, literally a preposition phrase “when those of His,” generally referring to family. “When His family heard, they went out to take custody of Him.” The verb for custody is a verb that means to seize. It’s used 15 times in the Gospel of Mark, 8 of those times of seizing Jesus, including arresting Hi...

Some might say the catholic belief that Mary was sinless comes from a couple spots in the printed Bible, the main one is Luke 1:28 which is where the angel greets Mary and says that she is full of grace. So they ignore the prior verse, and the context of surrounding verses as well as  the rest of Scripture  on the sinful & fallenness of all mankind. We cannot take 1 verse and make a entire doctrine out of it, nor take Scripture out of context, nor add to it, nor create doctrines out of silence.  Here that issue or misunderstanding or twisting of Scripture is clearly resolved when looking at the whole of Scripture, but those who do not  read the Word of God and read it daily to study it well,  fall prey to false religions and false teachings such as the rcc <<<Return to prev page  Research more at  Catholic answers What is the Gospel of Salvation ?