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What happened to the children Joesph and Mary after Jesus?

I have seen documentaries about the Bible and most think Joesph

and Mary had children after Jesus.Were they killed by warring tribes

or the Romans.Did they continue in the church.What happened to them?

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  • 9 years ago
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    James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas were His brothers and what is often not taught is He also had sisters. The Bible also mentions that Mary and Joseph had daughters, but it does not tell us how many or their names.

    Jesus finished telling these stories. Then he moved on from there. He came to his hometown of Nazareth. There he began teaching the people in their synagogue. They were amazed.

    "Where did this man get this wisdom? Where did he get this power to do miracles?" they asked. "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary? Aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren't all his sisters with us?..." (Matthew 13:53-56; also see Mark 6:1-6)

    According to the Gospels, Jesus had several "brothers and sisters" but James and Jude are the only ones mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament—James as a leader of the early church in Jerusalem, and Jude in the short letter bearing his name. Originally, Jesus' family was skeptical of his ministry: "Even his brothers did not believe in him," says John's Gospel. Apparently the Resurrection changed their minds, because they joined Mary and the disciples in the Upper Room to wait for the Holy Spirit.

    James, probably the oldest of Jesus' brothers, made the decision at the Jerusalem Council that Gentile Christians did not have to obey ancient Jewish laws. He may have lived an ascetic life and was reported to have spent so much time in prayer that his knees "were like those of a camel." Jewish historian Josephus reported that Jewish leaders stoned James to death. Eusebius said he was thrown from the top of the temple and beaten to death with a club. It is unclear whether this James or another wrote the epistle bearing his name.

    Jude's letter of warning about impostors who had infiltrated the church suggests that he, too, became a respected church leader and perhaps a traveling missionary who saw such problems firsthand.

    @ There is nothing in the Bible about Mary and Joseph not having other children is false doctrine and derived from not actually reading the Bible. There is a denomination that teach Mary remained a virgin, but this is very contradictory to the scripture.

    Source(s): Bible Encyclopedia and Bible
  • 9 years ago

    You mean Jesus' cousins well the Apostle St. James the Just was stoned to death as it's written in the Book of Acts. The only time His cousin Simon (Salome) was mentioned besides being the son of St. Mary Cleophas (Alpheus) is when Jesus was eating at his house, Simon the Pharisee was Jesus' cousin. His other cousins Joseph (Jose) and Jude (Judas) there really is not much mentioned about them and of course about any of their sisters who are also Jesus' cousins. Jesus was the only child of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The other thing is that there are only three Marys mentioned in the Gospels, the Blessed Virgin Mary, her sister-in-law St. Mary Cleophas (Alpheus) also sometimes called the "other Mary". And St. Mary Magdalene the sister of St. Lazerus and St. Martha who was possesed by seven demons.

    You do realize that brothers and sisters in Greek can mean they were either siblings, which of course Jesus didn't have any, they were His kinsmen (cousins), and of course brothers and sisters can have a spiritual meaning. Now about 300 years after St. Jerome defended the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Eastern Church began to circulate that Jesus' step father St. Joseph instead of St. Mary Cleophas (Alpheus) being his sister they made the claim that she was married to him and he divorced her. But this would conflict with Scripture because Scripture says that St. Joseph was a righteous man, a righteous man wouldn't abandon his family.

  • Thomas
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    They are written about in the NT. The books of Jude and James in the NT were written by two of his brothers. In the NT his 4 brothers are all named, though his sisters aren't. The whole point of the NT are Jesus' teachings in reestablishing a relationship with the Almighty Father. These teachings and his and the Apostles' examples constitute the main theme of the NT. - Perhaps anything other would have taken away from this.

  • 9 years ago

    The Bible mentions Jesus' half-brothers and sisters, four of them were James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas, I don't think the sisters are ever named in the Bible. Some of them, if not all, became his followers eventually.

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  • 9 years ago

    as there were no words for cousins or other extended members of families in the hebrew language , the word 'brothers' was used

    if jesus had brothers his mother would have been placed in their care after his death./

    genesis 13:8 abraham said 'let there be no strife between your herdsman and mine , for we are brothers.

    in gen. 19-7. lot went to the door, 'i beg you my brothers.'

    romans 12.10 'love one another as brothers.'

    david called his friend jonathan 'brother .' 2 samuel 1;26

  • sunny
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    I believe James was beheaded and I'm not so sure about the others.

    Read Foxes Book of Martyrs.

  • Owl
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    There is nothing in the Bible about Mary giving birth to anyone other than Jesus, nor is she ever identified as being the mother of anyone other than Jesus, nor is anyone other than Jesus ever identified as being her child.

  • 9 years ago

    The catholics covered up all knowledge of their existence by killing anyone who mentioned them. Sorry it looks like your next.

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