02_Feník Lapko_498-524_498-524 10/12/15 10:16 Pagina 523 523 ANNUNCIATIONS TO MARY IN LUKE 1–2 523 Finally, in 2,49 Jesus speaks to his parents (kai. ei=pen pro.j auvtou,j). The following verse that records the parents’ misunderstanding of to. r`hm/ a o] evla,lhsen auvtoi/j refers to his utterance. The verbs of speaking used in all these instances should be allowed their full telic force — each suggests that an annunciation is underway within the pericope. The evangelist highlights Mary as the principal recipient of the above annunciations. She appears as the addressee of the angel’s message in 1,30 (auvth/|) and 1,35 (auvth/|). Her relative identifies her as the addressee in 1,45 (auvth/|). While the shepherds are not ex- plicitly pictured as speaking directly to her, Mary’s attitude of pre- serving their words comes in view in 2,19. She is the one to whom Simeon speaks, implicitly in the first part of his speech (2,28-32), explicitly in the second (2,34-35 pro.j Maria,m). Her son also speaks to her (2,49). Each scene contains a reference to Mary’s re- action to the message proclaimed (1,38; 2,19; 2,33; 2,50-51), with the last one implying that Mary preserved in her heart the words of all annunciations delivered (2,51 pa,nta ta. r`h,mata) 47. Each messenger appears on stage with a message concerning Jesus. Gabriel announces that the child will be the Messiah and God’s son. The shepherds add that he is the savior. Simeon aug- ments this portrait by out clarifying Jesus’ significance for the Gen- tiles, while anticipating the future division in Israel caused by his appearance. Jesus himself rounds out the content of the preceding messages by pointing out that he must be evn toi/j tou/ patro,j. What thus emerges is the phenomenon of a crescendo characterization of Jesus — the angel in the first annunciation has not drawn for Mary the christological portrait in its fullest expression. Other messengers appear and broaden his proclamation by supplying new crucial in- formation about Jesus’ identity and his future deeds. Teologická fakulta v Košiciach Juraj FENÍK Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku Róbert LAPKO Hlavná 89 041 21 Košice, Slovakia 47 The formulation pa,nta ta. r`h,mata, to follow HEININGER, “Familien- konflikte”, 58, “auf alles zurückblickt, was in der Kindheitsgeschichte bislang über Jesus gesagt wurde”. Storing the words of all announcements in her heart implies, in the words of J.N. ALETTI, L’art de raconter Jésus Christ. L’écriture narrative de l’évangile de Luc (Paris 1989) 77, that Mary “entre par la médi- tation dans l’épaisseur du mystère de son fils”.