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OR the thought that Mary was never never referred to as “Mother of God” and that the Disciples would have dismissed that as blasphemy.

"When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"

As for Egypt being "into paganism", Egypt was the center of one of the largest Jewish communities outside Israel, and Mark founded the church of Alexandria there.

>>OR the thought that Mary was never never referred to as “Mother of God” and that the Disciples >>would have dismissed that as blasphemy.

Fedora:
"When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"

As for Egypt being "into paganism", Egypt was the center of one of the largest Jewish communities outside Israel, and Mark founded the church of Alexandria there.

Good points; in addition, when Elizabeth said "the mother of my Lord" what does "my Lord" really mean ?

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

John, Catholic chapter twenty, Protestant verse twenty eight,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James