Footnote 7 – Does the Gospel of Matthew Proclaim Mary’s Virginity?

This is not to say, of course, that Matthew implies that Mary was not a virgin, but only to admit that the question of her pre-marital sexual status is never considered and thus never defined at all in the first Gospel. It is even quite probable that the virginity of a young Jewish girl about to be married was assumed as normal by Matthew and everyone else in that day.