The culture of the time in which mary lived was much different than our.

How old was virgin mary when she was pregnant. According to the gospels, mary became pregnant with jesus through a divine action. The only point of luke 1:36 is to provide mary with example of a miraculous pregnancy. Joseph, mary's husband is believed to be around 36 years.

The virgin in prayer, painted in c. All we know for certain is that mary was a virgin ( mt 1:23 ) ( lk 1:27 ) ( isa 7:14) and that she was. The angel told her that god had made her pregnant through a miracle.

We know from matthew and luke that mary was a virgin, and had never been married before, so her marriage age would have been set by common custom. According to the priest of saint mary's catholic church: This age varied some, but it was generally in the very early teenage years (and even at 12).

More material reasons that that we try to find for divinity of jesus, less do we understand his teachings. My take on it is entirely different. The bible does not explicitly state how old mary was when she gave birth to jesus, so we can only guess.we do know that mary was a young virgin when she.

The bible does not tell us directly how old mary was when she gave birth to jesus. As an adolescent, mary said “yes” to a call from god with a purpose beyond what. Elizabeth had a baby in spite of being barren.

I don't understand why is to so. According to the priest of saint mary’s catholic church, the following. We do know mary would have been a young virgin when she had jesus.