The angel said to her: "The matter is as you describe that no human has touched you, and you were not an unchaste woman, but your Lord said: 'The matter is easy for Me'; and so that this boy be a sign for the people indicating the power of Allah the Exalted, and a mercy from Us to him and to his mother and to the people, and the existence of Jesus in this state was a preceding decree measured, recorded in the Preserved Tablet, so its execution is inevitable."