used the baptism scene (1:10–11) to express a similar relationship of Jesus to God involving the Spirit. This relationship constitutes the major doctrinal affirmation of the Matthean and Lucan stories of the virginal conception of Jesus; their main thrust is an affirmation about Jesus, not about Mary ever-Virgin. c. Neither the Lucan nor the Matthean infancy narrative reckons with the pre-existence or the incarnation of Christ. These elements of a “high” (or highly developed) christology may have