In the Gospel according to Luke we find so much more details in reference to Jesus’ childhood. The timeline and the initiation of the story is set on the beginning of Jesus. When Mary is told that she would carry in her wound a “holy” and spiritual child. Elizabeth came forward to Mary and told her that she would be the mother of the Lord. Mary then goes to Nazareth where she gives birth to the saving baby Jesus.
As soon as Jesus was born the parents held him and said:
“For mine eyes have seen thy salvation” (2:31)
Even though the axiom is not crucial at the exact moment it is being said, I find it ironic that Jesus resuscitates from the dead, and this is being said at his birth. It is like the father, for an instance could see the future of his child and know that he would die and then live again. A small psychic moment.
What strikes me as odd is the amount of details used in this few chapters in comparison to Mark’s Gospel. During Mark’s Gospel the beginning is nearly the half of this gospel. Almost as if Luke could see more, or was more involved in Jesus’ life. Perhaps Mark was not invited to the actual birth.
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