His Mother Kept All These Sayings in Her Heart
H. Bushnell, D. D. Luke 2:50-51 And they understood not the saying which he spoke to them.… Not in her memory, nor her understanding, nor her diary, but in her heart — that well of silence in the bosom of true motherhood, where all freshest, purest waters are kept fresh and pure. Infiltered there, and stored by loving thought, they are not vapourized and shallowed by much talk, and seem to be only the sweeter the deeper fill they make. Her family story she cannot carry into the street, or even speak of with her friends. And things are occurring with her Jesus every day, in which stamps and signatures of His divinity are distinctly, and even visibly, manifest, but which cannot be advertised without becoming tokens of weakness in the mother and precocity in the child. She sometimes wants to even strike a song of triumph, but her loudest song will be silence — a hymn that she keeps hid in her heart, as she does all the sayings and great acts of her wonderful Son. (H. Bushnell, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. WEB: They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.