Jesus’ Siblings in scripture

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I always defend Jesus as having no brothers or sisters. But, how can one argue this passage:

Mark 6:3
3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense[a] at him.
 
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Different answers have been given to that question at different times. The oldest answer is that they were Joseph’s sons and daughters by an earlier marriage.
 
I call some of my best friends my ‘bros’ or ‘brothers’.

This doesen’t mean that we share a mother or are biologically related , but rather that we’re just very close, almost as if we’re siblings.

The same logic can apply here.
 
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We don’t argue single passages. Mary was the “bond slave” of the Lord - her own Son. Silly to postulate anything different.

Each of the reformers believed in Mary’s perpetual virginity and admonished those who did not.

By what authority does your counter point argue? The English language?

Read the Book of Tobit. Brother and sister were those of your same tribe of the 12 tribes of Israel. A man took his “sister” to wife.

Too bad that so many have an incomplete bible.

Search out a few (hundred) threads here on the subject.
 
The best answer I’ve heard is that the Hebrew word for “brother/sister” is the same word for “cousin”.
 
It was explained to me that cousins and extended families were often referred to as brothers and sisters…this was by a priest. In yesterday’s homily in fact!
 
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Aramaic and Hebrew did not have words distinguishing between a brother and a cousin. The problems we get when we try to translate from one language to another…
 
I have read lost books of the Bible…
And they say Joseph was an older man -
He was 50 - Mary was 14 -
He didn’t want anything - to do with Mary -
God - via a miraculous sign - gave him no choice in the matter.
Anyways - Joseph was a widower - and had children.

Mary - again - from these lost books -
Her parents were told by an angel - they’d have her.
Another miraculous event - ( like Elizabeth with child John Baptist)
And she was raised - in very Holy surroundings.
 
You mean the Apocrypha? If so, they’re not lost, and are not books of the Bible.

I personally disagree that he was a widower and an old man.
 
We believe that Joseph was older than the Blessed Mother and that he was a widower., the children being from that marriage. Dear Joseph was chosen to take care of Jesus and Mary. I will always defend, but I will not argue when people claim that Mary and Joseph had more children…When someone chooses to argue just tell them you gave them your side of it, which you know is true. God bless you.
 
I find that people seem to stick to their opinion about this no matter what facts or sources you show them. I heard a catholic radio show where the host gave a wonderful answer to the question and the caller still didn’t believe him.
 
There are different Mary´s in the Gospels that are sometimes mixed up with one another.

Virgin Mary, Mother of God

Mary, wife of Cleophas, mother of James, Joses, Judas and Simon. Sister to Mary mother of God John 19, Mark 15

Mary Magdalene

Mary of Bethany sister to Martha and Lazarus
 
Until Jerome came up with the cousin idea in the year 380 or thereabouts, it had been generally accepted that James, Jude, Joses and the others named as “the Lord’s brethren” were the sons of Joseph by an earlier marriage.
 
Jesus had no brothers otherwise he wouldn’t have given Mary’s care to the Apostle John. He had cousins (the word for brother and cousin is the same in old Greek). There is a tradition that James the Less and Simon the Zealot were his cousins.
 
I am not questioning anything. Just asking how we answer the passage i quoted
 
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and are not books of the Bible.
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They are in fact books of the Bible.

Assuming the apocrypha refers to the books in the Old Testament we have that Prots do not.
 
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