When Joseph, Mary’s fiancé, learned Mary was pregnant, he was inclined to break off their engagement (Matthew 1:19). While he was considering his options, St. Matthew relates, an angel of God appeared to him and told him to go ahead and marry Mary. The baby she was carrying was implanted in her by the Holy Spirit. This was done to fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy given over 700 years earlier: “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is ‘God with us’”(Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23).
Something to Think About
“When we have finished a day’s work, and are entering upon the rest of the night, we should commune with our own hearts about what we have been doing that day; so likewise when we have finished a week’s work, and are entering upon the sabbath-rest, we should thus prepare to meet our God; and when we are finishing our life’s work, and are entering upon our rest in the grave, that is a time to bring to remembrance, that we may die repenting, and so take leave of it.” — Matthew Henry, commenting on Genesis 1:31
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