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=The prostitute/virgin bride=
Matthew demonstrates his observance of the prostitute/virgin bride motif or pattern found in the OT. It would be wrong to assume that Mark/Peter was unaware of the circumstances of Jesus's birth. The disciples surely shared their knowledge among each other as they recollected the happenings. But the time of Mark's book, they had not correlated those events with the scriptures, and did not see why those details were important to the fulfillment of prophecy.
The referent of this pattern is the church which is described as both a prostitute and a virgin. God's people have the sin nature which makes them to be their own god, yet Christ makes the church his spotless bride. Matthew uses Mary as his example since she is a part of the literal life of Christ which is also a prophecy of the bride of Christ. If all things speak of Christ, then they look like each other sometimes.
=Eve=
:Eve was seduced by the serpent <ref>[[Ge 3:1]] ¶ Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?</ref> but had a son by the seed of the woman as a hint of a virgin birth. =Rebekkah=:Rebekkah was a virgin who was 'took/married' <ref>The Hebrew word for 'took' also means married</ref> by the servant[[Ge 3:Rebekkah was 'uncovered' with 15]] And I will put enmity between thee and the servantwoman, and covered herself when she saw Isaac. This is a riddle hint of he prostitutebetween thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, while she remained pureand thou shalt bruise his heel. </ref>
=Rebekah=
:Rebekah was a virgin who was 'took/married' <ref>The Hebrew word for 'took' also means married</ref> by the servant
:Rebekah was 'uncovered' with the servant, and covered herself when she saw Isaac. <ref>[[Ge 24:65]] For she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.</ref> This is a riddle hint of he prostitute, while she remained pure.
=Leah and Rachel=
:Leah sneaked into Jacob's wedding tent<ref>[[Ge 29:23]] And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him [Jacob]; and he went in unto her.</ref>, playing the role of the prostitute while Rachel remained the virgin bride. The ambiguity of the pronoun is also suggestive that Laban took his own daughter as well. This did not occur, but it is relevant to the word-play of prophecy.
=Tamar=
:Tamar played the harlot but was called more honorable righteous than Judah.<ref>[[Ge 38:26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.</ref>
=Gomer=
:Gomer was a prostitute who named her first child Jezreel "God sows" as a hint of the virgin birth. =Isreal <ref>[[Ho 1:2]] ¶ The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD. [[Ho 1:3]] So he went and took Gomer the church=daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. [[Ho 1:Israel was repeatedly chastized 4]] And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for playing yet a little [while], and I will avenge the harlotblood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the church is described as he virgin bridehouse of Israel. </ref>
=Israel and the church=
:Israel was repeatedly chastised for playing the harlot, and the church is described as the virgin bride.
