‘But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.'
And Mary, to whom the shepherds would have explained everything, kept what they had said, along with what the angel had said to her earlier, and everything else that she heard about those days, and pondered on them regularly in her heart. She no doubt explained this to Luke when she was telling him about these wonderful events. It was inevitable that it would be so. They were not things easily forgotten. It was not until she got older and ‘more sensible' that she tried to but a brake on Jesus' ministry (Mark 3:21; Mark 3:31-35). For, godly woman though she was, like us she was only human.