Luke Chapter 2 verse 19 Holy Bible
But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
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But Mary kept all these words in her heart, and gave much thought to them.
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But Mary kept all these things [in her mind], pondering [them] in her heart.
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But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
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But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
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and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;
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Luke 2 : 19 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. Such a note as this could only have been made by Mary herself. She knew her Child was in some mysterious sense the Son of God. A glorious being not of earth had told her that her Boy would be the Savior of Israel. The visit of the rough shepherds to her in the crowded caravanserai, and their strange but quiet and circumstantial story of the angel's visit to them, was only another link in the wondrous chain of events which was day by day influencing her young pure life. She could not as yet grasp it all, perhaps she never did in its mighty gracious fullness; but, as at the first, when Gabriel the angel spoke to her, so at each new phase of her life, she bowed herself in quiet trustful faith, and waited and thought, writing down, we dare to believe, the record of all that was passing, and this record, we think, she showed to Luke or Paul.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Mary kept all these things.--On the assumption that the whole narrative is traceable to the Virgin herself as its first author, these brief and simple touches as to her own feelings are of singular interest. She could not as yet understand all that had been said and done, but she received it in faith, and waited till it should be made clear. It was enough for her to know that her Child was, in some sense, the Son of God and the hope of Israel. The contrast between the simplicity and purity of St. Luke's narrative, and the fantastic and often prurient details of the Apocryphal Gospel of the Infancy is every way suggestive.
