The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
      1. It is a just enquiry which she makes: "How shall this be?Luke 1:34; Luke 1:34. How can I now presently conceive a child" (for so the angel meant) "when I know not a man; must it therefore be otherwise than by ordinary generation? If so, let me now how?" She knew that the Messiah must be born of a virgin; and, if she must be his mother, she desires to know how. This was not the language of her distrust, or any doubt of what the angel said, but of a desire to be further instructed.