Story 2 (see 1:26–38) tells of the annunciation to Mary. Mary like Zechariah questioned the angel, but not like Zechariah out of unbelief. Her difficulty was a moral one: she could not see how an unmarried girl was going to become a mother. She was told how. And there again (see 1:35) the story might have ended, for at this point all that it has to tell us about the greatness of Mary’s Son and the miraculous conception has now been told. But the story has something more to tell us, and when we hear