Did Joseph and 'The coat of many colors' marry Mary?

Answer 1

Joseph haydn married Maria Anna Aloysia Apollonia Keller.

Answer 2

It does appear from the gospels that Jesus had brothers and sisters. Presumably, this included James, the brother of Jesus whom Paul mentions. So the question is whether these children were born before or after Jesus.

The Catholic Church has developed a doctrine that Mary remained a virgin all her life, although there appears to be no biblical basis for that doctrine. Because of this doctrine, the notion has developed that Joseph was previously married and already had several children. Another possibility put forward is that whenever The Bible speaks of Jesus' brothers and sisters we should interpret these terms as really meaning his cousins, but this view has won limited support because it seems so self-serving, when the simpler explanation is simply that Jesus really did have (half) brothers and sisters.

There are several reasons to doubt the Catholic position. One is that Matthew's Gospel makes it clear that only Joseph, Mary and Jesus escaped to Egypt and only they turned aside from their return to Bethlehem and travelled to Galilee where they settled in a town called Nazareth (Matthew 2:23). Luke's version of the nativity has only Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem, and only Joseph, Mary and Jesus return - leaving us to wonder why Joseph would leave young children to fend for themselves. Another reason is that when Mary appears with Jesus' brothers and sisters, she seems to have a quite close relationship with them. Finally, if Jesus had at least four brothers and two or more sisters and if James was the eldest brother as indicated by his subsequent leadership of the church in Jerusalem, then James would have been already have been at least 10-15 years old when Jesus was born in 5 BCE (or earlier). The relevance of this is that, as an older brother, James would have been too old for the robust leader he seems to be in the epistles and in Acts. All these problems disappear if the brothers and sisters were born to Mary after Jesus was born.

The weight of biblical evidence is that Joseph and Mary had children after Jesus was born.

Answer 3

No, Joseph from the Bible who had the coat of many colors, and Mary who was the mother of Jesus, were not married to each other. Joseph, with the coat of many colors, was the son of Jacob and Rachel, while Mary was betrothed to Joseph, who was a descendant of David.

Answer 4

A:

Nothing in the gospel accounts ever suggested that Joseph had any other wife before Mary, mother of Jesus. However, the Church gradually began to emphasise the virginity of Mary, until it became dogma that she remained a virgin throughout her life. Simce Jesus is clearly described as having brothers and sisters in the care of Mary, this had to be explained away by proposing that they were the older children of Joseph but not of Mary, or that they were not real brothers but only cousins.

Joseph could not have had older children by a previous wife, since neither nativity account mentions them at the time of Jesus:

In Luke's Gospel, it is implausible that he would have left his other children alone in Galilee while he took Mary with him to Bethlehem. Nor is it possible that his other children had grown to adulthood by the time Jesus was born, if only because this brings into question why he took Mary on an arduous and dangerous journey in her late pregnancy if he had sons and daughters who could care for her. Paul portrayed James as still young and energetic enough to lead the Church in the fifties of the first century, when such a hypothesis would make him at least eighty, a great age for a commoner at that time.

In Matthew's Gospel, Joseph and Mary lived in Bethlehem, but there is no mention of other children. The gospel makes it clear that only Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled from Bethlehem to Egypt, so we can rule out any other children of Joseph at that time. And once again, Paul's epistle rules out James and his younger brothers and sisters from Joseph having already grown to adulthood by the time Jesus was born.

Mary's close relationship with Jesus' brothers and sisters, even in adulthood, points to them being her own biological children.

Answer 5

No, he was not married to anyone else before or after Mary.
no he never was

Answer 6

Joseph is another person, who lived years earlier to Mary and Joseph, from the New Testament.

Answer 7

Yes, Joseph and Mary were married, and they had other children after Jesus was born.

Answer 8

The Bible does not say whether Joseph had children before Jesus. Mary was a virgin before Jesus' immaculate conception. But after Jesus' birth, Joseph and Mary had more children together.

Answer 9

none

she was a loyal wife