People belonging to the mainline Christian churches today, accept Mary, the young girl who lived in Nazareth, Israel, more than two thousand years ago, as the mother of Jesus. There is ample evidence from both tradition and scripture to verify her exalted position.
In the Gospels of Matthew and Luke she is specifically named as the woman giving birth to Jesus. In the Gospel of John, Jesus performed His first miracle at Mary's request when He changed water into wine at the wedding feast at Cana.
The author of John's Gospel also places Mary, Jesus' mother, at the foot of the cross on Calvary.
In the Gospel of Mark, when Jesus returned to His home village of Nazareth, the townsfolk had difficulty believing in His teachings and in the miracles He had been performing. "Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary...?" they asked. (Mark 6:3)
In "The Apostles' Creed", a statement of the articles of faith dating from the first centuries of the early Church, Mary is specifically named as Jesus' mother:
" I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary..."
Jesus is both true God and true man. His Divine nature comes from God ,His Father in heaven, and His human nature from Mary, who is indeed blessed among earthly women.
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