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John 2:12 & John 7:1 & Acts 1:14 & Galatians 1:19 & 1 Corinthians 9:5
These verses prove beyond any question that Jesus had literal blood brothers through Mary. Notice that brother cannot refer to “brethren in the church” kind of usage because other “brethren in the church” are listed beside “Jesus brothers”. Of the 20+ times “Jesus brothers” are referred to. NEVER are they called cousins or relatives. How could the Holy Spirit say it to make the fact any clearer?
John 2:12 After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and there they stayed a few days.
John 7:1 And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee; for He was unwilling to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
3 His brothers therefore said to Him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may behold Your works which You are doing. 4 “For no one does anything in secret, when he himself seeks to be known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”
5 For not even His brothers were believing in Him. 6 Jesus therefore *said to them, "My time is not yet at hand, but your time is always opportune. 7 "The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil. 8 “Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.” 9 And having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee. 10 But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as it were, in secret.
Acts 1:14 And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. 14 These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
Galatians 1:18 Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. **19 But I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. **
1 Corinthians 9:4 Do we not have a right to eat and drink? 5 Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the **apostles, and the brothers **of the Lord, and Cephas?
Colossians 4:10
Cannot simply be cousins because Colossians 4:10 uses a separate Greek word. **
Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you his greetings; and also Barnabas’ cousin Mark **(about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him);
The bible never uses these two Greek words anepsios or sungenis in reference to Jesus brothers. For Catholic doctrine to be true,
Greek Dictionary: cousin/Relative:
anepsios (ajneyiov" , (431)), in Col. 4:10 denotes a cousin rather than a nephew (A.V., “sister’s son”). “Cousin” is its meaning in various periods of Greek writers.¶ In this sense it is used in the Sept., in Numb. 36:11.¶ In later writings it denotes a nephew; hence the A.V. rendering. As Lightfoot says, there is no reason to suppose that the Apostle would have used it in any other than its proper sense. We are to understand, therefore, that Mark was the cousin of Barnabas.
sungenis (suggeniv" , (4773)) in Luke 1:36 (so in the most authentic mss.) and sungeneµs in ver. 58 (plural), A.V., “cousin” and “cousins,” respectively signify “kinswoman” and “kinsfolk,” (R.V.); so the R.V. and A.V. in 2:44 and 21:16. The word lit. signifies ‘born with,’ i.e., of the same stock, or descent; hence kinsman, kindred. See Kin, Kinsfolk, Kinswoman.
Note: In Col. 4:10, A.V., anepsios (cp. Lat., nepos, whence Eng., nephew), a cousin (so, R.V.), is translated “sister’s son.” See Cousin.¶
**John 1:41 He
found first his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah”
read
bible.ca/cath-mary-had-many-children.htm
**This passage clearly shows the context cannot allow for an interpretation of spiritual “brother,” since the same “did not believe in him”! This disbelief in Jesus from his own “brothers,” at that point in time, is shown elsewhere:
uch: If we wish to affirm, in the reading of this psalm, that Mary had other children, then we must also espouse these corresponding blasphemous notions of Jesus. Perhaps these other children mentioned in the psalm actually relate to David, the psalmist, for we know for a fact that he did have other brothers - and indeed he was a sinner, at times foolish, and in need to be saved from his sins. :yup: Psalm 69 may even be referring to Israel as a mother. The fundamentalist tendency to remove verses from an entire reading and isolate them for the sake of accommodating his bias and satisfying his preconceived notions (The historic Christian faith is not a preconceived notion, since it comes to us from Jesus through the apostles.) leads one into error and reinforces his false beliefs.
Besides before it took written form it was oral in the prominent language of the day-Aramaic.
But for some reason some folks think that if they put their views on different threads that somehow we will start to buy it