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Had Mary guessed about resurrection ?

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Mary is the woman that tells Gabriel yes, likely assents this yes is valid for her son too, at least as long as Jesus 's not given the signal for the end of her protection, when she, with Joseph, finally discover him in the temple.

I feel it like Jesus' protection switches then from hers to God's, and she tells "yes" to this change as well.

Which makes me assume she tells yes to the death of Jesus too. Actually, i'm not sure, and thus is it i have a question please :
Hadn't there been this episode of his 12 year od in the Temple, wouldn't have Mary tried and avoid the cross for him ?

And, second question :
what makes me subsequently wonder whether she'd not guessed about resurrection is this trustful yes of her, for her giving birth to the son of God, for her accepting God's protecting takeover of the 12 year old Jesus, and finally this death, is (at least in my opinion) to make sense or consistency with the plan God gives through Gabriel's initial speech.
So, do you think, please, she could have guessed about resurrection, since it seems it was the only option that could make sense for her after the cross ?
(Actually up back to recently, i considered the three days for the finding Jesus in the Temple was linked with the three days for resurrection, but i just saw this as a mean for her to not fall in despair, whereas i question myself now up to what preceeds)

Sorry i wonder whether i shouldn't have post this thread in christian apologetics..
 

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she likely didn't know the specific details of His crucifixion beforehand but experienced the joy of His resurrection, emphasizing that she, like all humans, had to trust God's unfolding plan. She likely didn't despair but trusted.
 
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Mary is the woman that tells Gabriel yes, likely assents this yes is valid for her son too, at least as long as Jesus 's not given the signal for the end of her protection, when she, with Joseph, finally discover him in the temple.

I feel it like Jesus' protection switches then from hers to God's, and she tells "yes" to this change as well.

Which makes me assume she tells yes to the death of Jesus too. Actually, i'm not sure, and thus is it i have a question please :
Hadn't there been this episode of his 12 year od in the Temple, wouldn't have Mary tried and avoid the cross for him ?

And, second question :
what makes me subsequently wonder whether she'd not guessed about resurrection is this trustful yes of her, for her giving birth to the son of God, for her accepting God's protecting takeover of the 12 year old Jesus, and finally this death, is (at least in my opinion) to make sense or consistency with the plan God gives through Gabriel's initial speech.
So, do you think, please, she could have guessed about resurrection, since it seems it was the only option that could make sense for her after the cross ?
(Actually up back to recently, i considered the three days for the finding Jesus in the Temple was linked with the three days for resurrection, but i just saw this as a mean for her to not fall in despair, whereas i question myself now up to what preceeds)

Sorry i wonder whether i shouldn't have post this thread in christian apologetics..

Remember, Jesus Christ is God, the Logos (John 1:1-18), the second person of the Trinity, incarnate of the Virgin Mary, in her immaculate womb putting on our humanity in order to restore and glorify it on the Cross.

That He was God was known to some, clearly, for at the Visitation of the Theotokos, when the Blessed Virgin Mary visited her cousin St. Elizabeth, mother of St. John the Baptist, St. Elizabeth referred to her as “The mother of My Lord.” Likewise we have St. Symeon at the start of Luke chapter 2 seeing the infant Christ and singing “Let thy servant now depart in peace, having seen the salvation of Israel…”

And we know that the Blessed Virgin Mary did work out who her son was, from the Gospel According to John - the Wedding Feast in Cana, where St. Mary said to the servants, and to us, the reader, “do what he commands you to do.” Thus, the people at the wedding feast got the best wine, and we get something even better- salvation in Christ.
 
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