wait a second I just picked up on this - Jesus hadn’t met the disciples yet, so if the story of him as a kid talking back to the...
wait a second I just picked up on this - Jesus hadn’t met the disciples yet, so if the story of him as a kid talking back to the temple priests is in the Gospels, does that mean he made a point of telling that story at some point?
or the priests were like woah get a load of that asshole kid, he has fans now
(the usual explanation for this stuff is luke 2:19, if anyone’s curious)
I am curious. What’s that taken to mean?
Mary told the Evangelists aaaaalllll about what a cute kid Jesus was, did I ever tell you about what he said in the temple??? oooh…
Huh so the early bits of the gospels are the Life of Jesus as told by Matthew/Mark/Luke/John as told to them by Mary? Huh, that’s an interesting dynamic and something I’d never thought of - coming from a Catholic background there was all sorts of Marian imagery but not much direct Bible-reading and that authorship angle never came up.