Watch: Mary and Joseph tie the knot in a new clip from Journey to Bethlehem
Watch: Mary and Joseph tie the knot in a new clip from Journey to Bethlehem
Even at their wedding, they express hesitation about being "stuck" in an arranged marriage.
The gospels say nothing about how and why Mary and Joseph became a couple, but in recent years there’s been a tendency to imagine that theirs was an arranged marriage—and, what’s more, that Mary might have objected to it at first.
That was the premise behind 2006’s The Nativity Story, and now it’s such a big part of the Christmas musical Journey to Bethlehem that the film has no fewer than three songs in which Mary processes her feelings about the looming nuptials.
The studio has already released clips featuring two of those songs: In ‘Mary’s Getting Married’, Mary’s sisters try to persuade her that even an arranged marriage can be pretty good actually; and in ‘Can We Make This Work’, Mary and Joseph meet for the first time and sing about how “insane” their situation feels.
Now the studio has released a clip with the third song, ‘We Become We’, in which Mary and Joseph literally tie the knot (in a ceremony officiated by Zechariah, the father-to-be of John the Baptist)—and even here, the couple express their hesitation through lines like, “Stuck here together,” “No choice in the matter,” and “Will this always be just an arrangement? We’ll find out in time if we don’t break it.”
It’s not exactly the most hopeful, optimistic note on which to start a marriage, but what can you do. At least the melody sounds more positive this time.
You can watch the clip here:
Incidentally, there are twelve songs on the soundtrack album—ten sung by characters, and two that play over the beginning and end credits—and the studio has now released six of them as movie clips, plus a music video for the end-credits song.
That leaves five clips that are still unreleased—but it’s more like four, really, because the first song is only 18 seconds long and it leads right into the opening-credits song. So there are basically four musical clips that haven’t been released yet: Herod’s ‘Good to Be King’, the Magi’s ‘Three Wise Guys’, and the opening and closing medleys.
Will those clips get released to YouTube too? We shall see.
Previous videos for Journey to Bethlehem:
The teaser trailer (April 28, 2023)
The official trailer (September 14, 2023)
The ‘Heart of Journey to Bethlehem’ featurette (September 20, 2023)
The Mary and Joseph featurette (September 29, 2023)
The Mary’s sisters featurette (October 3, 2023)
The Antipater featurette (October 6, 2023)
The Fig (donkey) featurette (October 10, 2023)
The ‘Can We Make This Work’ clip (October 13, 2023)
The King Herod featurette (October 20, 2023)
The Gabriel featurette (October 25, 2023)
The ‘Brand New Life’ music video and featurette, the ‘Gift of Giving’ promo, and the Catholic and Protestant screening reactions (October 27, 2023)
The Wise Men featurette (October 31, 2023)
The ‘Married Collaborators’ featurette (November 3, 2023)
The ‘In My Blood’ clip (November 4, 2023)
The Mary featurette (November 7, 2023)
The Joseph featurette (November 9, 2023)
The ‘Mother to a Savior and King’ clip, the ‘A Story Worth Sharing’, ‘God Is with Us’, and ‘What We Know’ videos for local church use, and the ‘Dallas Jenkins Shoutout’ video (November 16, 2023)
The ‘Mary’s Getting Married’ and ‘The Ultimate Deception’ clips, and the Adam Anders and Joel Smallbone see-it-in-theatres videos (November 22, 2023)
The ‘Come Look at the Star’ clip (December 2, 2023)
Other previous posts on Journey to Bethlehem:
‘Has The Road to Bethlehem not been filmed yet?’ (August 19, 2022)
‘Adam Anders’ Nativity musical now filming in Spain’ (February 23, 2023)
‘Adam Anders’ Nativity musical gets a title’ (April 3, 2023)
‘Exclusive: Journey to Bethlehem director Adam Anders on his years-long quest to make a musical about the Nativity’ (October 23, 2023)
‘The Journey to Bethlehem soundtrack is here’ (November 3, 2023)
‘Box office: The Marvels, Journey to Bethlehem get the holiday season off to a rocky start’ (November 13, 2023)
‘A few thoughts on Journey to Bethlehem’ (November 16, 2023)
‘Journey to Bethlehem round-up: a new clip and a newer, longer soundtrack album’ (December 2, 2023)