the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ

She wept bitterly, and said 'I've done no wrong, I swear! I have never been touched by a man! It was an angel that came to me, because God wanted me to conceive a child!' He called her to him and said 'Mary, my poor child, what have you done? You that were so pure and good, to have betrayed your innocence! Who is the man that did this?' 'Lord,' he cried, 'forgive me! Forgive me! What sort of care is this? I took this child as a virgin from the temple, and look at her now! I should have kept her safe, but I left her alone just as Adam left Eve, and look, the serpent has come to her in the same way!' He hid his head in his cloak, he threw himself to the ground, he wept bitterly, he covered himself with ashes. When Joseph came home from the work that had taken him away, he was dismayed beyond measure to find his wife expecting a child. Mary, you are blessed among women, that this should come to you! You must give thanks to the Lord.'Īnd that very night she conceived a child, just as the angel foretold. I have come from him especially to bring it about.

'Ah, the Lord wants this to happen at once. 'You are going to conceive a child,' said the angel. In order not to frighten her, he had assumed the appearance of a young man, just like one of the young men who spoke to her by the well. 'Let me in and I shall tell you a secret that only you must know.' She was confused, and said 'Who are you?'

The Lord must have favoured you especially, to be so sweet and so gracious, to have such eyes and such lips. 'Mary, do you know how beautiful you are? You are the most lovely of all women. One night in her bedroom she heard a whisper through her window.

The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ