Excerpt from Birth of the Messiah by Paul Thomas Smith.
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Not long after Mary returned to Nazareth from visiting Elisabeth for three months (see Luke 1:39—40, 56), Mary's betrothed, Joseph, became aware of her pregnancy. Having no knowledge of the miraculous events that had brought it about, he anguished over what course of action to take. Then, in the quiet of the night, Joseph was visited by an angel who revealed to him that Mary was to become the mother of the long-awaited Messiah:
"Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
"And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins....
"Then Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife" (Matt. 1:20—21, 24).
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