From Mary’s point of view Every year Joseph and I would travel to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover. We had been doing this for about twelve years traveling with our baby and later with our growing child. This year Jesus was twelve and we trusted Jesus with increased responsibility

Scripture shares several appearances of the Risen Lord: the women at the tomb, Mary Magdalene and other women who brought perfumed oil to anoint the body, the Eleven, the two on the road to Emmaus, and perhaps others not named. But Scripture does not mention an appearance to his mother