Mary, the Blessed Mother of Jesus

Lk 1:28, 30; -- angel Gabriel: "full of grace....found favor with God"


Lk 1:40; -- Elizabeth: "most blessed among women"

Lk 1:48; -- Mary: "all generations wil call me blessed"

Mary as the Mother of God:

Lk 1:43; -- Elizabeth calls her "mother of my Lord"

Mt 1:23; -- a virgin will bear a son, Emmanuel (means "God is with us")

Lk 1:35; -- child born will be called holy, the Son of God

Gal 4:4; -- God sent His Son, born of a virgin

The Assumption of Mary's Body into Heaven after her Death:

Gn 5:24; Hb 11:5; -- Enoch taken to heaven without dying

2 Kg 2:11; -- Elijah assumed into heaven in a fiery chariot

Mt 27:52; -- many saints who had fallen asleep were raised

1 Thess 4:17; -- caught up to meet the Lord in the air

1 Cor 15:52; -- we shall be instantly changed at the last trumpet

Rom 6:23; -- for the wages of sin is death

Rev 11:19; 12:1; -- ark in heaven is a woman clothed with the sun

Immaculate Conception (Mary was Conceived Without Sin):

Lk 1:28; -- hail full of grace, highly favored daughter; the Lord is with you

Lk 1:30; -- you have found favor with God

Lk 1:37; -- for with God, nothing shall be impossible

Gn 3:15; -- complete enmity between woman and Satan (sin)

Ex 25:11-21; -- ark made of purest gold for God's Word

Mary Ever-Virgin; Her Perpetual Virginity:

Lk 1:34; -- how can this be, since I do not know man

Lk 2:41-51; -- at age 12, Jesus was apparently the only child of Mary

Mk 6:3; -- "the" son of Mary, not "a" son of Mary

Mt 27:56; -- Mary the mother of James and Joseph is also...

Jn 19:25; -- Mary, the wife of Clopas

Jn 19:26; -- entrusted Mary to John, not a younger sibling

Jn 7:3-4; -- brothers advise like elders: "go to Judea, manifest...."

Mk 3:21; -- set out to seize him, "he is out of his mind"

Mt 28:20; -- I am with you always, until the end of ages