Week 37 Luke
The angel Gabriel told Mary she was going to have a baby.
Mary asked a good question: how can this be, since I am a virgin?
The angel gave her two not too detailed explanations about how the miracle would work, and then one outcome: the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God.
In the natural world when a natural human man and a natural human women have natural sexual intercourse then they have a natural human child. But in the Lord’s case he had a natural human mother but he didn’t have a natural human father so he wasn’t a naturally conceived human child.
Unlike Mark, Luke seems to be pretty keen on going back to the very beginning and showing that before he took his first breath the Lord was prenatally unique. He was not just a guy from Nazareth who had an extraordinary bunch of innate talents, innovative ideas, oratorical skills, and personal charisma. In whatever ways he was regular there were ways he was quite a bit more than regular. And in the story of the virgin-conception Luke is clear that from the start the Lord was special. Jesus was human, and he was also divine. He was the one, and he was the other; both-and.
Note: quote from Luke 1:34 & 35 (NASB)