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Mary was busy consummating the marriage with someone else. Hence...Jesus.
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The Bible tells us that Mary was engaged to Joseph when Gabriel told her she was to be the mother of the Messiah. Joseph held a quiet wedding so no one would realize that fewer than 9 months passed from the wedding to the birth of Jesus. As for them consummating their marriage after Jesus was born, who said they didn't?
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The Bible doesn't go into much detail about Mary and Joseph mainly because their not very relevant to the mission of Jesus.
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Realistically they probaly did, but the whole immaculant conception story has more of a wow factor to it. I find it hard to believe, but one shouldn't believe everything they read.
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Historically, virgin did not mean without sex, it mean not done before. The virgin birth was her first child, and, truth be told, Mary and Joseph probably did what every other married couple since the concept of marriage arose did, they got down and dirty like a couple of pigs in a truffle patch.
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