I’m sorry brother...
Clearly I should have been specific. Mary had come to believe in Christ without the benefit of witnessing a single miracle or sermon... because she believed in Jesus before Jesus was even born.
In this way she was very much unlike the Apostles.
People don't need to see miracles to believe.
They had Scripture and those who knew it had its witness to go by.
They could recognize the Messiah that way.
And actually, basing one's faith solely on miracles is a recipe for disaster. The enemy can counterfeit miracles.
the rich man and Lazarus come to mind. When the rich man begged Abraham to send Lazarus back Abraham responded with essentially, *Let them listen to the Law and the Prophets. Even is someone rises from the dead they will not believe if they are not willing to listen to the Law.*
Mary believing without seeing a miracle makes her not any different than millions of others who have placed their faith in Christ without seeing a miracle.
I don't know about you, but if I had an angel appear to me, address me personally, tell me the great and wonderful things God was going to do for me, the blessing He was going to give me and I became pregnant while a REAL virgin - just like the angel said - I'd be inclined to call THAT a miracle in itself!