Scripture Journal

When Mary came back from visiting with Elizabeth and was found to be pregnant, this didn't mean that she came back and had an ultrasound, she was showing that she was pregnant. People would have noticed a difference. Just as in our day I can imagine that when Joseph chose to marry her, many people would have assumed the child to be his. They would have assumed that they had had sexual relations before they where actually married.  How did he get harassed by his peers the way we would today. Was he looked down upon in the community. The scriptural account gives no inclination, but it is not unreasonable that the time of Jesus's conception would have been a hot topic in Nazareth.