Why wasn't Mary stoned to death for her sin of pregnancy out of wedlock?

Question

Referring to Mary, the mother of Jesus.

We all know that back in the day stoning was the punishment for an umarried woman who was found to be "with child."

Why was Mary spared?

Answer 1

Mary didn't get stoned to death because it wasn't GOD's will.

The whole series of events surrounding the birth of Christ was predestined and predicted in the old testament. With an omnipotent and omnipresent GOD there was no other outcome then the will of Christ in Mary's womb.

Answer 2

My dear Pamela,
Mary was not stoned to death because nobody could prove that he was a sinner. His pregnancy was the work of the Holy Spirit who has the power to create the Baby inside her womb without a natural husband and wife relation, just as He created Adam in the beginning from a piece of clay or earth. Another reason is,
Six months before she became pregnant, there was another miracle in Jerusalem, the wife of Zachariah, a priest in the Temple there, called Elizabeth, a barren woman all her life, and was past the age of bearing a child, but was pregnant through the power of God. When he became pregnant as predicted by an angel and with a proof of becoming miraculously mute because doubting the angel's word,

Besides those evidences, of course the testimony of Joseph, who was known as a righteous person, and could be witnessed by his friends and relatives that they never slept together, who was also visited by an angel in his dream telling that the pregnancy of Mary was not accomplished by human work but by the Holy Spirit.

Answer 3

Muhammad was preaching in Arabia about Mary and her virgin pregnancy and he gave excuses for her as she is unique woman that Allah had chose her to have his prophet without father as miracle to human kind but in the same time he stoned an Arab woman to death for having baby out of wedlock with out giving her any excuse even though she done no harm to him and that became a law which some Muslems government keep update like Saudi and Iran.

Answer 4

Back then, if the woman of an "engaged" couple got pregnant or did anything to bring shame to herself, her husband-to-be could "cast her aside", meaning he washed his hands of her and need not marry her. In that situation, the woman could be stoned to death. However, in Mary's case, an angel visited Joseph and enlightened him about the situation. Following that, Joseph accepted Mary as his wife and stood by her, so there was no punishment.

Answer 5

It wasn't a sin to be pregnant; it was a sin to have sex out of wedlock. If the story was as it was told, they would have had no-one to accuse her of being with that they could have proved.

Your question itself could be used as proof that Jesus was of divine origin as it shows that there was something unusual in her case.

Still, she didn't well advertise the fact that she was pregnant now did she? And the ones who were stoned were more the prostitutes and such. Too, you don't hear of any other women in the Bible being stoned for simply being pregnant without a husband. So, this maybe wasn't unheard of in the times. We have a number of laws in the United States that aren't always enforced as such. The fact that this one wasn't in Jesus' time doesn't necessarily mean it was an exception, or at least a gross one.

Answer 6

Matthew 1:18 - 21 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. 20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins."

He held Mary very dear and did not pt her out and make her a public example. The Holy Spirit was guiding a protecting.

Answer 7

Because they were already "married" so to speak. It was a long drawn out process. The Bible says that Joseph considered giving Mary a divorce,sorta, he was going to "put her away" to save her the bad reputation but an angel stopped him and told him to marry her anyway.
The marriage was not consummated until after Jesus was born.

Answer 8

because IMHO human beings were primitive decrease back then. without the custom we take with no interest those days, human beings act like animals. and they did not reply to reason. lower back, puzzling for us to imagine at present, yet we were steeped in thousands of years of acculturation that makes us comprehend guidelines and sense incorrect about transgressing them. dad and mom spank and punish young ones because young ones might want to be unruly and opt to have limits placed on them. at the same time as they improve up, no longer a lot. BTW even in historic situations, Jews had regular courts that meted out justice, and capital punishment change into exacted quite hardly (even one demise penalty in line with 70 years might want to carry disgrace to the intense courtroom). So the theory that folk were purely stoning one yet another left and proper is a mischaracterization.

Answer 9

Mary and Joseph were married, but not living together yet. At that time people married, but there was a period of time before they lived together. I don't know how long this time was though.

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 10

because she was betrothed to Joseph, and he stepped up and said the kid was his. Things were different then. Betrothed couples often lived together in her father's house but didn't have sex until the groom could pay the bride cost her father demanded Often the price was paid in work, not coin. Pregnancy happened more than people think, but the wedding was just put up to stop tongues from wagging