 And the years passed by quickly, and Mary, who nurtured him and the other children, was proud of each of them too. But most of all, she must have watched her firstborn, whom the angel, remember, had proclaimed to her would be the savior of the world. In him, she would marvel again and again at his kindness and his patience and his love. She would have pondered the events of his birth and the prophecies surrounding his future.