Could virgin Mary have children

Answer 1

No, she didn't.

Alternative Biblical viewpointRoman Catholics believe that Mary remained a virgin for the rest of her life after having Jesus. There is good reason for beliving this if one takes the Catholic Church teaching seriously. However, Biblically there is no evidence for this doctrine nor for the belief that Mary had no more children. Because Catholics revere Mary in particular, the doctrine that Mary remained a virgin and that she was born not with original sin (the 'immaculate conception' took hold.

In The Bible there are many incidences where the brothers and sisters of Jesus are mentioned or even named:

• Matthew 12:46 (NIV) While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.
• Luke 8:19 (NIV) Now Jesus' mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd.
• Mark 3:31 (NIV) Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.
• Matthew 13:55 (NIV) "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
• Matthew 13:56 (NIV) Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"
• John 7:1-10 (NIV) After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. 2 But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, 3 Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that ....
• Acts 1:14 (NIV) They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
• Galatians 1:19 (NIV) I saw none of the other apostles-only James, the Lord's brother.

Some claim that these "brothers" were actually Jesus' cousins, but in the original Greek, the specific Greek word for "brother" is used rather than 'cousin', as it was in respect of Mary and Elizabeth. Also, if these were Jesus' cousins it is indeed strange that they are always assocoated with Mary and not their own mother, if it were Mary or Joseph's sister. A second argument is that Jesus' brothers and sisters were the children of Joseph from a previous marriage but again this does not make sense, for if he had had children by a previous marriage they would certainly have been mentioned not only in Joseph and Mary's trip to Bethlehem or their trip to Egypt or their trip back to Nazareth or elsewhere in the Gospel accounts. Let's not forget that these brothers and sisters were the same generation as Jesus, and would therefore have been subject still to Joseph's parental responsibility - yet there is no hint of this in the Gospel accounts.

Therefore there is no biblical reason to believe that these siblings are anything other than the actual children of Joseph and Mary and real brothers and sisters (or, at least half-brothers and half-sisters with respect to Mary conceiving by the Holy Spirit).

Answer 2

Roman Catholic AnswerThe Virgin Mary only had one child, Our Blessed Lord, and she had him miraculously, through the intervention of the Holy Spirit. She could not have have had any more children for the simple reason that she lived and left this life a virgin.

Answer 3

She only had one "kid" and that was Jesus and she delivered him in the normal way as do all other women who undergo childbirth.