Interesting? Silly is more like it. It's even sillier than the biblical version, and that takes some doing.
Sounds to me like an impotent old man trying to explain his pregnant wife. There are other, more realistic, explanations.019.008 He said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I have grown quite decrepit from old age?"
Yeah, they used to do that here in the states, too. Send the pregnant teenager to live with family somewhere, so the neighbors won't know she got pregnant. Of course, nobody would claim that the baby was conceived miraculously. But I'm quite sure at least one of the parents would be stomping around, muttering, "Jesus H. Christ, how could she do this to me!"019.016 Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in the East.