The Father’s Choice of Mary and Elizabeth Shows us His Compassion Mary and Elizabeth were two women, uniquely joined in time. They were cousins. We don’t know how old they were when each became pregnant. Elizabeth was older Luke 1:18. She was well beyond childbearing years. Let’s says she was in her 60’s. She may have been a little younger or a lot older.  Mary on the other hand was young, almost certainly a teenager. Let’s say she was 17. She may have been younger but not much older.   Out of all the women anywhere in the world throughout ...