As an atheist, I must admit I love this song. I listen to the pentatonix version every christmas. Simply beautiful.
@AurorXZ8 ай бұрын
Same. The Pentatonix edition gives me goosebumps.
@alicepow2608 ай бұрын
sometimes a song is just a banger no matter your religion
@miguelthealpaca89718 ай бұрын
Yeah, same
@Eden_jasperАй 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?
@perrywilliams5407Ай 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.
@nedsantos14158 ай бұрын
The response is honest, scholarly, and informative....also educational for me.... Thank you.
@gennie47798 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..."
@nicholasbanton8 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!
@777Atum8 ай бұрын
This is the funniest video yet. Lol. Keep up the good work 💯
@cameronvansant21088 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.
@billcook47688 ай бұрын
A Child, a Child shivers in the cold Let us bring Him silver and gold
@mickeydecurious8 ай бұрын
So many children shiver in the cold in America and World wide😢
@aidenmartin66748 ай бұрын
In America cold, shivering children get bootstraps
@mickeydecurious8 ай бұрын
@@aidenmartin6674 More like the middle finger😢
@christasimon97168 ай бұрын
@@aidenmartin6674 That is SO true in the U.S., an idiom for an impossible task.
@mickeydecurious8 ай бұрын
You ain't lying 🤦🏼
@ballasog8 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.
@KaiHenningsen8 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.
@ballasog8 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.
@brygenon8 ай бұрын
"... Joe dragged Mary to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve ..." Yeah but that was the deal since they had visited her family for Thanksgiving.
@ballasog8 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.
@brygenon8 ай бұрын
@@ballasog Yeah, who knows... maybe her phone was broken.
@christasimon97168 ай бұрын
Alright, let's see it
@robertmoore20498 ай бұрын
That should be the name of his channel! 😂
@PlaylistWatching12348 ай бұрын
What a treat!
@karyldavidkidd71118 ай бұрын
Mary...lol... Christmas bud!!
@clifb.35218 ай бұрын
What about when RUN DMC quotes the Bible? “ Mary Mary why you Buggin’
@georgepeterson96968 ай бұрын
Don't most new mothers think their child is "God's Perfect Little Lamb?" 😉
@reversefulfillment91898 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.
@tomoth777 ай бұрын
How could you not know this song? It's been around for years.
@emilyly8 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas Dan🎉🎉
@squiddwizzard88508 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas everyone!
@AurorXZ8 ай бұрын
You too!
@cariboubearmalachy11748 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.
@AurorXZ8 ай бұрын
The number of people who take the song literally drives me crazy lol.
@dundeemink38478 ай бұрын
Matthew 1:25 , Mary found out if she didn't "know"
@alanb88848 ай бұрын
This was seriously fun.
@brygenon8 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.
@jimtom73138 ай бұрын
Bah! Humbug
@mjt5328 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,
@alanb88848 ай бұрын
As a Jewish maiden/mother of that time period, how much would she typically be instructed on the Law?
@icollectstories57022 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.
@WhatYourPastorDidntTellYou8 ай бұрын
Even from a super conservative standpoint, Mark saying “yes” on some of these was a little odd.
@justinthor54388 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.
@wendyleeconnelly29397 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
@jennifersilves41957 ай бұрын
If Jesus is the Lamb of God and Mary is the mother of Jesus did Mary have a little lamb?
@chaiman37618 ай бұрын
What does reigning over Jacob mean?
@icollectstories57022 ай бұрын
"The house of Jacob" (actually Abraham's) -- the kings of Israel.
@charper9Ай 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?
@lucifoster52738 ай бұрын
Someone posted that Merry Christmas means “happy death of Christ”! True? Can you address this in a video?
@michaelsbeverly8 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."
@hopeforthebestx8 ай бұрын
Is the Angel of the Lord in Matthew the same figure as in Genesis?
@DJTheTrainmanWalker8 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
@DJTheTrainmanWalker8 ай бұрын
I have no idea why this is here... I remember replying to a completely different video of Dan's.
@christasimon97168 ай бұрын
omg
@LUTHERANISM8 ай бұрын
All you catholics please take notes
@azurejester8 ай бұрын
🤙
@mccsnackin8 ай бұрын
It’s a lot of people’s favorite christmas song, but I find it unbearable.
@ballasog8 ай бұрын
Just took a look at the Petersens singing it. They pull it back to something much more normal.
@mickeydecurious8 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🤔💭
@munbruk6 ай бұрын
I used to listen to it, very nice but blasphemy since Jesus is depicted as God. Very catholic.
@ritawing10648 ай бұрын
Never heard of this apparently appalling song, but it can't be so bad as that ghastly "Silent Night"...
@CharlesPayet8 ай бұрын
Oh yes, it most definitely can be!
@ritawing10648 ай бұрын
@@CharlesPayet heavens!.... Ok I listened to it, you're right, it's the pits.
@CharlesPayet8 ай бұрын
@@ritawing1064 oh dear, I’m so sorry you had to experience that!
@davidjanbaz77288 ай бұрын
I take all you're anti Christian redaction scholarship with a pound of salt !
@squiddwizzard88508 ай бұрын
He's literally a Christian
@johnpetry53218 ай бұрын
Someone is truly triggered. Have a great X-Mas
@dwp64718 ай бұрын
So reading the Bible to get an answer is anti Christian. Interesting.
@davidjanbaz77288 ай бұрын
@@johnpetry5321no, just Laughing at Dan's REDACTION SCHOLARSHIP!
@Noneya55558 ай бұрын
And yet you're always here, watching his videos. Some people aren't happy unless they're angry. Smh...