James the "brother" of Jesus?

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Although i don’t have any new research to back any side, I’d like to say that I think God intended Jesus to be an only child, becuase It’d be easier that way. As my youth minister said, if she did have other kids, she probably would have said something like: “Why can’t you be more like Jesus?” often. Think of how hard that would have been on her children!
 
St Jerome has discussed the meaning of the brothers and sisters of Mary.

It does not require them to be Joseph’s children of another marriage:
The work (Against Helvidius) can be found here. Note his knowledge of the idioms and expressions of the Bible. It is a good source against Protestant objections as well (like “First Born” and “Until she bore a son”)

newadvent.org/fathers/3007.htm
 
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 I confess that I didn't read all the threads.  In Judaism there are no cousins,  there are only brothers and sisters.  Its a different kinship system entirely.   Your  father's brothers sons were  brothers also.  Look back and see  Jacob and his relation to  Laban his uncle.   Some of your 1st cousins were not brother and sisters.   It  simply fluke of this kinship system that "Christ' s brother James" comes up. 

 Don't confuse your Faith in  Church  traditions passed down over  kinship terms  that you are not familar with.

 Mary remained  ever a virgin.
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Arnobius said:
St Jerome has discussed the meaning of the brothers and sisters of Mary.

It does not require them to be Joseph’s children of another marriage:
The work (Against Helvidius) can be found here. Note his knowledge of the idioms and expressions of the Bible. It is a good source against Protestant objections as well (like “First Born” and “Until she bore a son”)

newadvent.org/fathers/3007.htm
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Ack… that should have read “Brothers and sisters of Jesus”
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A Catholic Apologist:

Now we have four ‘brothers’, JAMES, JO’SES, SIMON, and JUDE to account for as written in Mk 6:3…

Mk 15:40, “There were also women looking on afar off: among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of JAMES the less and of JO’SES, and Salome.” These people were at the crucifixion.

Jn 19:25, “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother (Mary) and His mothers sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.”
Note that if in this verse the word “sister” meant blood sister, that she is not named here. The context and placement of the commas preclude that there were two girls in the same family, both having the same name of Mary. Would not this cause much confusion in the family? By careful comparison to Mk 15:40 it is seen that Mary the Mother of Jesus is not mentioned, but Salome is. Also Salome is indirectly mentioned in Matt 27:56 as the mother of the sons of Zebedee. It can therefore be assumed that Salome is the unnamed sister of Mary in this verse.

Mt 10:2-3, “…‘JAMES’ the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddeus.” Alphaeus is an alternate translation of Cleophas (Clophas) and so he is the same person.

Acts 1:13, “…JAMES, the son of Alphaeus, and SIMON Zelo’tes, and JUDE the brother of JAMES.”

From these four passages, we see we have another ‘Mary’, who was the wife of Cleophas (Alphaeus), and the mother of three of Jesus’s ‘brethren’, JAMES (the less), and JO’SES, and JUDE. This clearly shows that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was not the mother of JAMES, JO’SES, and JUDE of Mk 6:3. To keep Mk 6:3 in harmony, since three are not children of Mary, the mother of Jesus, then SIMON is not either. SIMON is the Canaanite Mk 3:18, also called the ‘Zealot’ (Zelo’tes), Mt 10:4, Lk 6:15, Acts 1:13. Jude, who authored the Epistle of Jude, says he is the brother of James in Jude 1:1. Jude was also called ‘Thaddeus’ in Mt 10:3, and in Mk 3:18. This was to distinguish him from Judas Iscariot. Lk 6:16 further distinguishes the two by saying, “And Judas (Jude) the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.”

More on the topic of ‘Mary’s other children’, I have another point to make…

Jn 19:26-27, “When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He loved…” The disciple was John, the author of the Gospel of John. “Then He said to the disciple, BEHOLD THY MOTHER.”
Was John a child of Mary and blood brother of Jesus?

Read the following verses to see…

Mk 1:19, “…He saw James, the son of Zebedee, and ‘JOHN’, his brother.”

Mk 3:17, “And James the son of Zebedee, and ‘JOHN’ the brother of James.”

In neither of these passages is it said that Jesus saw a blood brother or even recognized them as men that He knew.

Mt 27:56, “Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, (the less) and Jo’ses (Joseph), and the mother of Zebedee’s children.”

Mt 20:20, “Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons…”

Mk 15:40, “…among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joseph, and Salome (the mother of Zebedee’s children).”

Lk 24:10, “It was Mary Magdalene…and Mary (‘the other Mary’) the mother of James (the less)…”

A comparison of Mt 27:56, and Mk 15:40, clearly shows that Zebedee had a wife whose name was Salome. She is called the ‘mother of Zebedee’s children’ in Mt 27:56, and ‘Salome’ in Mk 15:40. They had two children, JOHN and JAMES, Mk 3:17. JOHN at the foot of the cross to whom Jesus gave His mother, was not a child of Mary, the mother of Jesus, but of Zebedee and Salome. If Jesus had blood brothers, why then did He not give His mother to them? Jewish law would have demanded it…

GENEALOGY:
—Zebedee------Mt 4:21,Mk 1:19, Mk 3:17----------------
—Salome------------Mt 27:56, Mk 15:40--------------------
—Cleophas-(Alphaeus)–Mt 10:2-3, Jn 19:25, Acts 1:13------
—Mary----the other Mary, Mt 27:56,61, 28:1, Jn 19:25------
—THE HOLY SPIRIT------Lk 1:35-38----------------------
—Mary---------------------Lk 1:30-38-----------------------
 
Wolseley said:
That’s precisely what Gandalf and I are saying, Volodymyr. Joseph was a middle-aged man who was more or less elected to be Mary’s guardian; she was probably a girl of about 15 years old.

We were making the point that these questions are the ones that need to be addressed to the people that frankdinovo was discussing in the OP.
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My apologies…😊

Sometimes the internet is not the best place to pick up facial expressions which are a necessary part of our language.🙂
 
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