13. What was the name of Messiah's mother? She was called Mary.
14. What was the name of the man she was pledged to be married to? His name was Joseph.
15. Where did they live? In Nazareth in Galilee.
16. How did Mary became pregnant? Through the Holy Spirit. He overshadowed her so that although she had never been with any man she was able to become pregnant with the holy one, the Son of God.
17. Who told Mary she was going to have a baby? The angel Gabriel.
18. What did Gabriel say about the baby she would give birth to? He would be great and called Son of the Most High; God would give him the throne of his father David and he would reign over God's people forever, his kingdom never ending.
19. How did Mary first react to this news? She humbly accepted it by faith.
20. How did she react later on? She wrote a song about God's kindness to her and to his people. It is found in Luke 1.
21. What word do we use for the fact God became man and was born a man on earth? We call it the incarnation.
22. How does John refer to Messiah before his birth? He calls him the word.
23. What does he say about the word at the beginning of his Gospel? The word was with God and he was God.
24. What does he then say about the word? That the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
