What, exactly, did Mary know?
Рет қаралды 10,039
Күн бұрын
@316wolfy 8 ай бұрын
As an atheist, I must admit I love this song. I listen to the pentatonix version every christmas. Simply beautiful.
@AurorXZ 8 ай бұрын
Same. The Pentatonix edition gives me goosebumps.
@alicepow260 8 ай бұрын
sometimes a song is just a banger no matter your religion
@miguelthealpaca8971 8 ай бұрын
Yeah, same
@Eden_jasper Ай бұрын
I enjoy plenty of songs who’s philosophy and worldview or creator’s philosophy and worldview i don’t agree with. That’s the beauty of art isn’t it? To bridge gaps and convey emotion?
@perrywilliams5407 Ай бұрын
Same for me. On a similar note, I once worked for a Muslim man, probably the most honorable person I ever worked for, who absolutely loves Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Great music speaks beyond its intended audience.
@nedsantos1415 8 ай бұрын
The response is honest, scholarly, and informative....also educational for me.... Thank you.
@gennie4779 8 ай бұрын
You have no idea how much southern Pentecostals love this song. It's so weird. So many times, in churches I've attended they have been like...."were gonna sing this song again like we did last year. You can't run. It's too late. Here it goes..."
@nicholasbanton 8 ай бұрын
@maklelan I appreciate and respect the level of scholarship you present in your arguments. You consistently speak to the level of your elite education without speaking above the comprehension of a layperson. Also, thanks for not engaging in ad hominem or mockery of your interlocutors. Subscribed!
@777Atum 8 ай бұрын
This is the funniest video yet. Lol. Keep up the good work 💯
@cameronvansant2108 8 ай бұрын
I love that the appeal of the post is "we can cheekily distill this several-minute song into a very brief answer" and it's like......... no you can't, lol. (Also I first heard this song from Mark Lowry (the song's writer, though I think there are lots of covers that are more well-known) so it was funny to hear that the comment poster is "Mark" vs. the "Mark" who wrote the lyrics, lol.
@billcook4768 8 ай бұрын
A Child, a Child shivers in the cold Let us bring Him silver and gold
@mickeydecurious 8 ай бұрын
So many children shiver in the cold in America and World wide😢
@aidenmartin6674 8 ай бұрын
In America cold, shivering children get bootstraps
@mickeydecurious 8 ай бұрын
@@aidenmartin6674 More like the middle finger😢
@christasimon9716 8 ай бұрын
@@aidenmartin6674 That is SO true in the U.S., an idiom for an impossible task.
@mickeydecurious 8 ай бұрын
You ain't lying 🤦🏼
@ballasog 8 ай бұрын
Mary knew plenty; Jesus's Nanas were college roommates. Joe's Mom was Catholic (Obviously, why else would Joe have been named St. Joseph?). Huge but friendly dispute between Nana C and Nana Anne over raising JC Catholic or Jewish (Jewish mother and Catholic mother - like two lions). This was resolved in favor of Nana Anne after Joe dragged Mary to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve without having enough sense to make a hotel reservation.
@KaiHenningsen 8 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, Jesus then converted and became a Messianic Jew, disappointing both Nanas. He somehow fell in with a group of shady characters, out-of-job fishermen, "tax" collectors for some _Italian_ -family- organization, and so on, disturbing the temple, riling up the masses, stuff like that. So he got in serious trouble with the authorities. That's what happens if you don't keep them on the straight and narrow, and instill respect for law and order.
@ballasog 8 ай бұрын
@@KaiHenningsen Please don't talk about things you don't know anything about. You're just making stuff up. Joe's Dad Harry was a pharmaceutical magnate and started a revocable trust for Joe after his company introduced St. Joseph Aspirin; the trust received 2% of the profits from the sales of the medication. After the Bethlehem fiasco, Harry made Mary the trustee of the trust and made her swear to him not to disburse any money to Joe that would give him an income beyond basic necessities until he learned a trade and understood what it was like to actually work for a living. Most of the disbursement's were for JC's education; during school holidays he hung out with Joe sometimes and made decorative objects in wood; these were much in demand. That's how the myth that he was a carpenter got started.
@brygenon 8 ай бұрын
"... Joe dragged Mary to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve ..." Yeah but that was the deal since they had visited her family for Thanksgiving.
@ballasog 8 ай бұрын
@@brygenon"Joe dragged Mary to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve *without having enough sense to make a hotel reservation.* " Nobody in either family made a deal for the first grandchild to be born in a barn. Step off. The flight to Egypt was just Joe, to give Mary and Mary's Mom time to talk his Mom down.
@brygenon 8 ай бұрын
@@ballasog Yeah, who knows... maybe her phone was broken.
@christasimon9716 8 ай бұрын
Alright, let's see it
@robertmoore2049 8 ай бұрын
That should be the name of his channel! 😂
@PlaylistWatching1234 8 ай бұрын
What a treat!
@karyldavidkidd7111 8 ай бұрын
Mary...lol... Christmas bud!!
@clifb.3521 8 ай бұрын
What about when RUN DMC quotes the Bible? “ Mary Mary why you Buggin’
@georgepeterson9696 8 ай бұрын
Don't most new mothers think their child is "God's Perfect Little Lamb?" 😉
@reversefulfillment9189 8 ай бұрын
Dan, your not the only one who's never knowingly heard this song. I usually skip Christmas music anyways, except for Andy Partridge and his failed songwriting career christmas album.
@tomoth77 7 ай бұрын
How could you not know this song? It's been around for years.
@emilyly 8 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas Dan🎉🎉
@squiddwizzard8850 8 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas everyone!
@AurorXZ 8 ай бұрын
You too!
@cariboubearmalachy1174 8 ай бұрын
If you believe, as Catholics do, that Mary is an immaculately-conceived holy person, you could also believe that she knew Jesus' significance as the Messiah and as God incarnate. Even uf you believe that she wss an ordinary human being, you could akso believe that Mary would have also known Jesus' spiritual significance through the presence of a Gid being inside her body.
@AurorXZ 8 ай бұрын
The number of people who take the song literally drives me crazy lol.
@dundeemink3847 8 ай бұрын
Matthew 1:25 , Mary found out if she didn't "know"
@alanb8884 8 ай бұрын
This was seriously fun.
@brygenon 8 ай бұрын
Dr. McClellan confesses that he -- perhaps shockingly -- had to look up this popular Christmas song. Ok Dan, correct me if I'm wrong on this: As you make these videos, you look up stuff all the time. Due respect to your scholarship, 'twould be malpractice to answer off the top of your head. Scientists, engineers, doctors and lawyers constantly check their references for things they probably mostly should already know.
@jimtom7313 8 ай бұрын
Bah! Humbug
@mjt532 8 ай бұрын
02:28 He says this refers to John the Baptist. I've always assumed verse 27 was talking about Jesus. How do we know? Does the Greek make it clearer? 76 And you, my child [John the Baptist], will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, 77 to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
@alanb8884 8 ай бұрын
As a Jewish maiden/mother of that time period, how much would she typically be instructed on the Law?
@icollectstories5702 2 ай бұрын
IMO "Obey thy husband." 🙃 I doubt the peasants knew more than the Ten Commandments. I'm sure any of their questions would be answered by a priest or scholar at the Temple.
@WhatYourPastorDidntTellYou 8 ай бұрын
Even from a super conservative standpoint, Mark saying “yes” on some of these was a little odd.
@justinthor5438 8 ай бұрын
Institute choir at the U.i remember when we got our Christmas music, and i clearly remember saying, "oof." when I saw Mary Did You Know.
@wendyleeconnelly2939 7 ай бұрын
Regarding the question at the start of the video Maybe it's my de vice but I couldn't see the name of the young woman or her channel name
@jennifersilves4195 7 ай бұрын
If Jesus is the Lamb of God and Mary is the mother of Jesus did Mary have a little lamb?
@chaiman3761 8 ай бұрын
What does reigning over Jacob mean?
@icollectstories5702 2 ай бұрын
"The house of Jacob" (actually Abraham's) -- the kings of Israel.
@charper9 Ай бұрын
How could Mary in any meaningful way actually give consent to bearing God's child? She was 15, uneducated, a virgin (even though she was married?) and the entity that was going to be impregnating her was the most powerful being in the universe?
@lucifoster5273 8 ай бұрын
Someone posted that Merry Christmas means “happy death of Christ”! True? Can you address this in a video?
@michaelsbeverly 8 ай бұрын
Question: In Mark 3 the family of Jesus goes to take charge of him (because they think he's insane). Obviously, this shows the visit from Gabriel is a later fiction, nobody gets a visit from an angel about their first born and forgets all about it, but I'm curious if the Markean account is possible based on real historical events? Maybe Jesus was acting a bit crazy and his family wanted to "take charge" of him. What would this "take charge" of him entail? Was there like psych wards in those days? "Excuse me, Mr. Christ, I'm officer Abaddon," a man in a uniform says to Jesus. "We've had some disturbing reports and we're gonna have to do a 51-50 on your ass. Sorry, but it's law."
@hopeforthebestx 8 ай бұрын
Is the Angel of the Lord in Matthew the same figure as in Genesis?
@DJTheTrainmanWalker 8 ай бұрын
Answering the title cold: No... kinda. And yes... kinda 1st C c.e. Judean.... Basically Arabic complexion. Possibly some admixture, but not sufficient to be noteworthy. Not African... But not Nordic either.😂 If the politically charged notions of 'white' and 'black' are used it might pretty much depend on who was being asked. Think of the fuss 'whites' in the Americas made over hyperdescent with notions of quadroons and octoroons.... Almost to the point that if you don't burn in the sun you are not white enough. And this of course has its mirror... In that 'black' folks are inclined to welcome anyone rejected by the 'whites', and accept them as >black
@DJTheTrainmanWalker 8 ай бұрын
I have no idea why this is here... I remember replying to a completely different video of Dan's.
@christasimon9716 8 ай бұрын
omg
@LUTHERANISM 8 ай бұрын
All you catholics please take notes
@azurejester 8 ай бұрын
🤙
@mccsnackin 8 ай бұрын
It’s a lot of people’s favorite christmas song, but I find it unbearable.
@ballasog 8 ай бұрын
Just took a look at the Petersens singing it. They pull it back to something much more normal.
@mickeydecurious 8 ай бұрын
IDK what to believe about Jesus other than he's NOT God...a teacher, a prophet that later became a son one of many🤔💭
@munbruk 6 ай бұрын
I used to listen to it, very nice but blasphemy since Jesus is depicted as God. Very catholic.
@ritawing1064 8 ай бұрын
Never heard of this apparently appalling song, but it can't be so bad as that ghastly "Silent Night"...
@CharlesPayet 8 ай бұрын
Oh yes, it most definitely can be!
@ritawing1064 8 ай бұрын
@@CharlesPayet heavens!.... Ok I listened to it, you're right, it's the pits.
@CharlesPayet 8 ай бұрын
@@ritawing1064 oh dear, I’m so sorry you had to experience that!
@davidjanbaz7728 8 ай бұрын
I take all you're anti Christian redaction scholarship with a pound of salt !
@squiddwizzard8850 8 ай бұрын
He's literally a Christian
@johnpetry5321 8 ай бұрын
Someone is truly triggered. Have a great X-Mas
@dwp6471 8 ай бұрын
So reading the Bible to get an answer is anti Christian. Interesting.
@davidjanbaz7728 8 ай бұрын
@@johnpetry5321no, just Laughing at Dan's REDACTION SCHOLARSHIP!
@Noneya5555 8 ай бұрын
And yet you're always here, watching his videos. Some people aren't happy unless they're angry. Smh...
Dan McClellan
Рет қаралды 26 М.