Mary mother of Jesus

So we find Mary, about fifteen years of age and inexperienced in meeting the trials of life, under contract to marry one she loved, but with child…We find her in a city of Galilee -rough, rugged, untempered Galilee -where a self righteous people were quick to condemn, ever ready to punish; where the tongue of gossip would cut her tender feelings to the bone; where she would become a hiss and a byword among her friends and relatives, for she had (as they would view it) committed the sin next only in wickedness to murder. Those among whom she dwelt would no more believe her strange tale that an angel had come to her…or that the Almighty himself was the Father of that which was in her womb; they would no more believe these claims than they would believe the testimony of the fruit of her womb when he testified in their own city that he was the Messiah of whom Isaiah had spoken. (Marvin J. Ashton, Mortal Messiah. P. 322)