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1 | Did Jesus, have sisters and brothers | John 19:25 | godsginagarner | 135258 | ||
Did Jesus, have sisters and brothers and what where their names? | ||||||
2 | Did Jesus, have sisters and brothers | John 19:25 | Dalcent | 135259 | ||
Hi there, (Steve, I'm responding to one of your questions here as someone else is asking the same thing) No he did not have brothers and sisters. And here’s proof. First, Jesus did not have brothers and sisters in the normal sense. Even if Protestants were right about Mary’s ‘other children’ they would have been half-brothers. Same mother, different father. Brother certainly doesn’t mean brother in the way most common to the English speaker. God was Jesus’ Father and Joseph would have been the father of any others. However they are not right! Mary had NO other children! The counter-argument usually starts with: Mat 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? Mat 13:56 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" The uninformed or unlearned say this means Mary had at least 7 children, i.e. Jesus, James, Joseph, Simon, Judas, at least two sisters. Oh for a closer look! 1) brothers is a common Semitism for many different forms of relationship. Practically no one would even bother to argue with this contention. (Rev 22:9 your brothers the prophets Rev 19:10 you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus Gen 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their COMPARE Gen 13:11 And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.) 2) v.55 does not say James and Joseph and Simon and Judas are Mary’s sons (which would prove they were). It says they were the brothers of Jesus. Scripture shows these ‘brothers’ are the children of Mary’s sister, Mary. John 19:25 his MOTHER'S SISTER, MARY OF CLEOPHAS,… (This means wife of Cleophas and is often translated as such) These brothers are Jesus’ relatives, Jesus’ kin, people who I’m sure were part of Jesus’ family; maybe they lived in the same house or certainly nearby. His extended family. Scripture proves them to be Mary’s sister’s children and names them too! Again,: Joh 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and HIS MOTHER'S SISTER, MARY OF CLEOPHAS, and Mary Magdalen. All these children of this Mary sister of Mary are named below, SCRIPTURALLY PROVEN SHE is the mother of Jesus ‘brothers’ mentioned in Mark 6:3 and above in Matt 13. Mar 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of JAMES and SALOME bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus. Mar 15:47 And Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of JOSEPH, beheld where he was laid. Luk 24:10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of JAMES and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, Mar 15:40 And there were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of JAMES THE LESS and of JOSEPH and SALOME, Compare the names again: Mar 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of JAMES, and JOSEPH, and JUDE, and SIMON? are not also his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in regard of him. Is anyone here arguing ‘coincidence’ that the names of the children of Mary’s sister Mary are the same as those mentioned in Mark 6 and Matt 13. Or that Scripture is referring to Mary Mother of the Lord, as Mary the mother of JAMES and SALOME. Do you expect me to believe that? The usual expression is Act 1:14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. (note, it doesn’t say her sons!) Mat 28:1 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the OTHER MARY went to see the tomb. There is another good argument that Mary Mother of the Lord had no one else to look after her when Jesus was crucified. Joh 19:26 When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. If my biblical evidence does not prove Mary had no children; it certainly allows it. We Catholics are not biblical ignoramus' you know. Because this is belief is held by all the Church fathers and a billion Catholics and the Orthodox Church too. Right back over two millennia. I require proof to the contrary. There is none. Sorry you have to ‘search the scriptures’ and think before this one falls into place. It is a little complicated but then that might be why you missed it. In Summary, Jesus had 'brothers' in the semitic understanding 'close relatives.' They are named in scripture. Their mother is Mary, mother of Mary. Their father was Cleophas. Your brother in Christ Dalcent |
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3 | Did Jesus, have sisters and brothers | John 19:25 | Dalcent | 135260 | ||
typo: sister of Mary | ||||||
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