Did Jesus have any Brothers and/or Sisters in the Bible ?
I can't find anything where it says Jesus had Brothers and /or Sisters
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Mark 3:32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. 33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
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DancesWithWolves Thanks for sharing your comment :)
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Linus gave one of the best references, but note: we don't know if these "brothers and sisters" were children of Mary or not. There are several reasons why we don't know that (I won't go into them here). *** Personally, I believe that they were probably children of Mary...but I realize that the Bible is not certain on the matter, and that other (very reasonable) possibilities exist. So: children of Mary, or not? We don't know. "Brothers and sisters" of Jesus - yes. However: how those words ("brother" and "sister") are to be interpreted remains uncertain. The Bible simply doesn't give enough information to be certain about it.
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DancesWithWolves
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I thought James was Jesus's brother.
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DancesWithWolves
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Linda Joy
He was.
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What isn't given in the Bible but available from other histories of the Bible, Joseph was a widower of 90 y.o. when he was betrothed to Mary who was 12 y.o. Joseph undoubtably had children making Mary the stepmother to his children and were older than Mary. James was a brother to Jesus.
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bostjan the adequate 🥉
Where on earth did you get that?! None of what you said seems the slightest bit plausible. When Jesus was doing His ministries, according to scripture, Joseph was an apprentice carpenter. So, 90 plus Jesus being in his late twenties... who would start an apprenticeship in their one-hundred-and-teens?! That makes no sense. Also, Mary's age is never ever ever specified, only that she was a "woman" at the time of Jesus' birth. Who would refer to a 12 year old as a "woman?" Your answer is implausible. -
Thinker
If you do additional study from different sources you will see the ages of Joseph as well as Mary. It was also common practice for girls to marry by age 12.5 years often to much older men. You cannot use today's standards for comparisons. -
bostjan the adequate 🥉
What sources? In Jesus' time, women were allowed to marry starting at 12.5, not before, and most commonly married around age 14. This was because marriage in traditional Judaism at the time was not instantaneous as it is in other Eastern cultures, with a betrothal lasting months. But the most ridiculous part of what you are saying is Joseph being 90 years old. -
bostjan the adequate 🥉
We do have a lot of data from that time period about the age of mothers giving birth, and the median age range is 20-22. If Mary had given birth at 13, even, I suppose it would have been plausible, but still far from probable. But Joseph being 90 is an insane claim. If we look at life expectancy, it's incredibly low due to infant mortality... but even if you gate out childhood diseases by looking at only males who survived past their tenth birthday, the life expectancy of the Levant region was only 52. 90 was absolutely ancient back then. Nobody was marrying off their daughter to a 90 year old man unless there were some notable circumstances that the Bible would be considered odd for not mentioning. -
Thinker
Read this: discover-the-truth.com/2013/09/30/marriage-of-mary-to-joseph-the-carpenter/
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Any siblings of Jesus would be half brothers or sisters. "God the father" was not known to sire more than one child.
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DancesWithWolves
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Linus van Pelt mentioned Mark 3:32, and also, there is another scripture Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3 which speak of Jesus having brothers and sisters. However, the actual original wording might have meant something more like "kin" and less like actual siblings. However-however, St. James, who was martyred in the 7th decade AD was known in Greek as Jakobos Adelphotheos, literally meaning "James the Brother of God," and apocryphally known as James the Brother of Jesus. But, there is no hard evidence that Jesus had any brothers or sisters, nor even that Jesus even existed. The fact that there is such a vehement schism between believers who think Jesus had brothers and believers who think Jesus had no brothers, that, well, probably the most correct position is to take no position at all and say that we don't know.
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The Bible tells us that Jesus had 4 brothers: James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas. Matthew 13:55 "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary? And are not His brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?" As for sisters, the names are not mentioned nor does the Bible say how many. Matthew 13:56 "And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"
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His brothers were named ub Matthew 13:55: James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas (see Mark 6:3). Matthew and Mark mention the sisters, Jesus's sister was believed to be named Ana but I can't find the reference now.>>>but I did find this>>>The ancient Welsh annals say that Anne was the "cousin" of "The Virgin" Mary, as the daughter of Joseph of Arimathea, however, she is identified with a (so-called) "sister" of Jesus by the Byzantine archivist-historian Sophronius of Jerusalem.
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