Buddy Greene - Mary, Did You Know? Lyrics

"Mary, Did You Know?" addresses the mother of Jesus directly, posing a series of questions about what she could have understood about her infant son's future while holding him as a newborn. Each question names a specific, later action, walking on water, giving sight, calming storms, building dramatic irony between the vulnerability of a sleeping child and the described scope of his power.

The bridge shifts from question to prophetic declaration, listing healings and restorations associated with the coming Messiah and describing them as praise directed toward "the Lamb." That shift from personal address to sweeping prophecy widens the song's focus from Mary's private experience to a fuller theological claim about who her child is.

The closing verse resolves the song's repeated questioning with direct titles, Lord of all creation and "the Great I Am," applied to the same sleeping infant described throughout. Widely performed at Christmas, the song functions as a meditation on incarnation, using unanswered questions to highlight the gap between an ordinary birth and an extraordinary identity.