Allie

Mary's response is amazingly humble and submissive, whilst Zechariah's response is doubtful and unreceptive. I have read this story my whole life, and I never caught this amazing parallel of responses in the same biblical story. Mary's "How?" is an awed question of how God was to go about this miracle; Zechariah's "How?" seems to be an actual question of whether or not it would be done at all. Whatever comes out of our mouths is a reflection of what is in our hearts- what an amazing example of how these two attitudes in this situation ended so differently.