Ask Jim. He's the one who said she would have been stoned.Joseph protected her, I guess, whether the baby was his or not. That was mighty nice of him.All joking aside, Mary was a teen age girl in a society where adulteresses were stoned to death if not shunned the rest of their lives.As long as Joseph bought it, all was well.Cool
IMO, she cheated and she was too cowardly to admit her misdeeds. The lies obviously corrupted the poor Jesus' mind.
Then again, im now .01 percent Jewish so im biased
She displayed a huge amount of courage in going through with the pregnancy.
They had old hags with twigs even back then.
If I were going to believe in any of this, or pray to anyone, it would be Mary.
"protected her" from what?. Joseph and Mary were----according to the NT---"betrothed" Even if they had screwed a bit before marriage------
such an act would not really have been considered a BIG CRIME
However, I do remember, Rosie, that it took a few angels to convince Joseph that the baby was God's--apparently Joseph was quite sure it wasn't his. Awkward.
I commented on jewish jurisprudence at that time. She would not have been stoned.
If you recall-----the issue which was supposed to elicit a "DEATH SENTENCE" was
"ADULTERY" -----pregnancy was never considered sufficient evidence for ADULTERY
in Jewish Jurisprudence. You are thinking islam