to be highly involved with sharing their sons's holy status? Instead, we don't hear anything mentioned about Mary and Joseph spreading the good news all his life, and Jesus leaves town to go do the miracles.. if Mary and Joseph knew he was so holy and special, wouldn't they be exclaiming that and following him their entire lives?
Mehvish
In the Qur'an, Mary is mentioned more times than Jesus! He's ALWAYS referred to as 'Isa ibn Maryam' - Jesus son of Mary. Mary is mentioned 31 times whereas Jesus is mentioned 28 times.
Samwise
If you want more stories of Mary and Joseph, I can recommend the early Christian Gospel of the Nativity of Christ as a source.
It's not regarded as canonical by any Christian church, so far as I know--although it was a source of stories cited by Mohammed in the Qur'an. It reads much like the old comic books about George and Martha Kent raising the foundling infant who became Superman.
During their time in Egypt, Mary starts saving Jesus' bath water and giving it out to cure diseases. It works fine for physical ailments, but mental disorders tend to require application of his discarded swaddling cloths.
After they settled in Nazareth, the boy Jesus performs more miracles, including one well-known from the Qur'an: he carves birds out of wood and they come to life.
But my personal favorite is the time a snake bit one of his friends, and Jesus ordered the snake to go back, bite him again, and this time suck out all the poison it had injected with the first bite. Not sure how the friend felt about that procedure, but it's a pretty good lampoon of some teachers!
There's also the time Mary and Joseph grounded Jesus--a good resource if you're looking for a scriptural basis for grounding your own kids.
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It really comes down to what God wanted them to do.
Joseph understood that caring for his family's spiritual needs was paramount. So he spent time teaching his children about Jehovah God and His laws. He and Mary regularly took them to the synagogue, where the Law was read aloud and explained. Joseph also took his family to religious festivals in Jerusalem. Joseph was a spiritual man who appreciated the privilege of becoming the adoptive father of Jesus despite the fact that Mary's firstborn would not be his own. Joseph and Mary knew actually what their roles were to be in Jesus life, and they were obedient to God in the privileges that they were given.
Chi girl
No, that idea is bizarre.
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No one really knew who Jesus was until the resurrection. As far as His followers (including His parents) Jesus was a holy man, a rabbi, who astonished and came in the name of the Lord. The realization that He IS the Lord came later.