“Did Jesus have Brothers and Sisters?” with Doug Batchelor (Amazing Facts)
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“Did Jesus have Brothers and Sisters?” with Doug Batchelor (Amazing Facts)
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You chose this topic because you are anticatholic. Knowing very well that the teaching of the Catholic Church is that Mary had only one child, Jesus. You constantly look for ways to speak trash against the Catholic Church. In Biblical times, cousins were considered brothers. Even today African Americans call each other BROTHERS. So do other ethnic groups. Stop trying to be anti Catholic. When you do so you show your true colors. Sinister.
That was a bait and switch!
The answer is, "No, Jesus did not have blood brothers nor sisters. His Mother is a Holy Virgin and Queen of Heaven and Earth".
Looks Doug, Jesus had another brother named Salome, the brother of James,
Jude, Joses & sisters all of Mary slices the toomb… It caught my eye after years my studied, especially the New Covenant Of The WORD OF LIFE.
the answer:
Jacob, the brother of the Lord, is James the son of Alphaeus, and at the same time he is the cousin of Christ according to the flesh, the son of Mary, the wife of Clopas (Celopas is another pronunciation of Alphaeus).
The cousins' children were considered brothers due to the close relationship, according to the Jewish customs of talking about this relationship.
An example of this topic is what was said about Jacob’s kinship with his maternal uncle Laban, as the book says: “And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his maternal aunt, and the sheep of Laban’s maternal aunt, that Jacob went forward and rolled back the stone, and watered the sheep of Laban his maternal aunt, and Jacob kissed Rachel and raised his voice and wept, and told Jacob Rachel is her father's brother and Rebekah's son” (Genesis 29:10-12). We see that although Laban was Jacob's uncle, he was considered his brother.
This same situation was used by Laban with Jacob when he asked him to be paid for herding his sheep. He said to him: “Because you are my brother, do you serve me for free? Tell me what is your reward?” (Genesis 15:29).
The same situation occurred in expressing the kinship between Abraham and Lot.
Abram was Lot's uncle. Therefore, the book said about the history of Abram and Haran (Lot’s father): “And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son” (Genesis 11:31). However, when Lot was taken captive from Sodom in the war at Kedorlaomer, the book said: “And they took Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions, and departed… And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he dragged his trained servants with him” (Genesis 14:12-14).
According to this ancient custom, Christ’s cousins, the children of Mary, Clopas’ wife, were called his brothers.
As for this Mary, she is the one mentioned in the Gospel of John: “And standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene” (John 19:25) (Read another article on this topic here on the St-Takla website in the Questions section and articles). It was said about this Mary in the Gospel of Mark: “And there were also women looking from afar, and among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger, and Joses, and Salome” (Mark 15:40).
These Jacob, Joses, and Salome, the sons of Mary, the wife of Clopas, are the ones mentioned in the Jews’ saying about Christ in the Gospel of Matthew: “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers Jacob, Joseph, and Judas?” (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3).
As for the Virgin Mary, she gave birth to none other than Christ, and she lived as a virgin all her life, and the “brothers of Christ” are not her children, but rather her sister’s children.
James the Younger (son of Alphaeus) was called the Younger, to distinguish him from James the Great (son of Zebedee), the brother of John the beloved.