virgin. Note: (1) Two Gospels affirm the virgin birth. Their accounts are remarkably different and entirely independent of one another; yet their testimony is a unit. They offer the only records we have concerning the birth of Jesus. (2) These early chapters of Matthew and Luke are inseparable parts of these Gospels. No manuscript evidence of any significance can be produced against them. The peculiar readings of Matthew 1:16, found in the cursive of the twelfth century (346), a few other late Greek