The Last Mention of Mary

Acts 1:14  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 16
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The beloved disciple, in obedience to the expressed desire of the Lord before He bowed His head and delivered up His spirit, had taken Mary unto his own home. (The reader will remember that in John 10, Jesus had said that He had power to lay His life down, and hence it is that, in accordance with this statement, it is here written that He “delivered up” His spirit—as One in full control over it. We are thus permitted to gaze upon Him in this act as completing His holy life of obedience, glorifying the Father, and finishing the work which He had given Him to do.) From that moment, except for one brief record, she disappears from our view. Neither at the burial of the body of the Lord, nor at the garden on the resurrection morn, is she seen, but after the Lord’s ascension, which the apostles had beheld (see Acts 1:1-111The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: 3To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: 4And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. 5For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. 6When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 9And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. (Acts 1:1‑11)), when they had returned unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, they went up into an upper room, where the apostles abode, and in this connection we find the final appearance of Mary in the sacred record. It says, referring to the eleven, “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren.”(From the next verse it appears that an hundred and twenty were finally assembled; but until the thirteenth verse the apostles alone are introduced—for the reason that they only were the Lord’s appointed witnesses.)