There’s no place in the New Testament where an Evangelist explicitly says, “Mary told me this” or “Joseph told me this.” But the question is indirectly answered by the way the infancy narratives function and by what we know about the early Christian community.
Then it didn't happen, but other women who told others things are mentioned in the New Testament, period
First, Joseph disappears from the Gospel record after Jesus’s childhood, which strongly suggests he died before Jesus began His public ministry. Mary, however, is present throughout Jesus’s life, is at the Cross, and is with the apostles in the early Church (Acts 1:14). So She is the most natural and historically plausible source for the details of Jesus’s conception, birth, and early years.
Second, the infancy narratives in Matthew and Luke contain details that only an intimate family member could have known—Mary’s inner thoughts (Luke 2:19, 51), the circumstances of the Annunciation, Joseph’s dreams, the private events surrounding the Shepherds and the Magi. These are not public events; they are family memories. The early Church preserved them because someone close to Jesus shared them.
Third, Matthew was part of Jesus’s earliest circle of disciples, and Luke tells us directly that he investigated everything “from the beginning” and relied on eyewitnesses (Luke 1:1-4). That means Luke’s account comes from people who were present for these events—Mary above all, and possibly other relatives or early disciples who had heard the story from Her. In addition, Jesus Himself would have learned the story of His birth and early life from both His Mother and Joseph while Joseph was alive. Because the apostles traveled with Jesus, lived with Him, and were frequently around Mary, Matthew and the other apostles would also have heard Jesus recount these events. These were not secret memories; they formed part of the shared life of the apostolic community.
So while the NT never gives us a sentence saying, "Mary told Matthew" or “Mary told Luke,” the shape of the evidence points in that direction. The Church has always understood the infancy narratives as coming from the Holy Family’s own recollections, preserved and handed on to the Evangelists.
What evidence, that Mary was there with the believers in Jerusalem from the beginning, as Luke's source is?
No!
From the beginning Mary and family were not believers and followers of Jesus, unable to 'comphrehend' even prophecy herself and kept them all in her heart.
They were not yet born from above and born again compared to the disicples who were already in the beginning with John the Baptist .
Since 'significantly' He's the 'best man' sent beforehand to make preparation of the 'bride', and hand over her to the 'groom' when He arrives.
Readers,
On my perivious post, i did give scriptures parallel to one another, what Luke meant in regards his 'source', then to write the Gospel according him.
Even Paul born again out of wedlock compared to the 12 Apostles, he sort out them, especially Peter, but also went along since James was with him, Jesus' half-brother.
One example, we have Prisilla and Aquila, as Prisilla also contributed in helping Apollos understand the way of GOD in account, but nothing of Mary sharing.
For one the tradition of social and credibility of women then, was not so reliable to men, as disciple Peter and John had to check it out for themselves, and not believe what Magdalene said.
That's why all along i strongly believe, Luke's source were 'men' believers and followers of Jesus eyewitnesses from the beginning, the chosen and discipled ministers of the word from the beginning.
As Apostles commissioned to all nations, they received the Holy Ghost, for one, who'll lead them into all truth among others.
Even Apostle John in his Gospel said that if they were to write down many other things Jesus did, even the world itself could not contain the books to have them written down. (John21:15)
And why not strongly all the men Apostles' from the beginning with John the Baptist and then FATHER and Jesus, later on full time the Holy Ghost, were solely their only 'source'?
At the same time, why not these are the reliable 'source' Luke is actually mentioned about, who inspired him to write his Gospel?
(More example, even disciple Thomas did not believe the fellow disciples witnesses of Jesus's resurrection, how much more if it was Mary Magdalene, even Mary the mother?)
With all due respect there's no discrimination to women, even though the weakest vessel compared to men according to Apostle Paul.
For they have their equal share of wealth in Heaven, even by their humble ministry under men and submit to men as their head in church on earth.
Thank you very much and shalom in the name of Lord Jesus Christ.
