While many of the pictures that we see today of mary holding baby jesus depict her as a young woman who was probably in her early 20’s, a majority of scholars and historians believe she.

How old was mary when she was pregnant. According to the priest of saint mary's catholic church: Some have stated, she was thirteen years of age. The bible does not tell us directly how old mary was when she gave birth to jesus.

Historians agree that mary was most likely between 12 and 14 years old when jesus was born. We do know mary would have been a young virgin when she had jesus. Mary received the angel gabriel’s message of her pregnancy from god as a young woman.

In mathew 1:18 “this is how the birth of jesus the messiah came about: My take on it is entirely different. The birth date of christ was one of the earliest established in this author’s study,.

There are also suggestions of age ten and twelve” (tafsīr ruḥ. Mary was approximately 14 years old when she got pregnant with jesus. Her male children were jesus, james, joseph, simon and judas ( matt.

As a result, mary was between the ages of 11 and 14 years old when she was “bethroed” to joseph. When mary gave birth to jesus, she was most likely between the ages of 12 and 14 years old. Also, as was common, mary had a large family, with at least seven children.

The culture of the time in which mary lived was much different than our. The virgin in prayer, painted in c. While the bible does not specifically state how old mary was when jesus was born, most christian historians speculate that she was around 15—16 years of age at the.