[Mrs. Don-o]

As for Jesus giving Mary to John ONLY, you are reading you own opinion into the text (which doesn't say "ONLY"!), and interpreting it in isolation from Revelation 12.

This is a common problem with people who have not the advantage of Apostolic Tradition --- you know, that particular kind of capital-T Tradition which St. Paul so strongly directed us to "maintain" and "stand firm and hold to" and live "in accord" with:

1 Corinthians 11:2
I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.

2 Thessalonians 2:15
So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.

2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

Tradition? Yes. The Bible tells me so.

[Elsie]

This is a common problem with people who have not the advantage of Apostolic Tradition --- you know, that particular kind of capital-T Tradition which St. Paul so strongly directed us to "maintain" and "stand firm and hold to" and live "in accord" with:

Sorry; but your Roman 'traditions' are not the traditions found in the bible.

They came along later.