Where's Joseph?

[Jabronie]

Joseph is hardly ever mentioned in the Gospel after the birth of Christ. Were’d he go?

 

[JimG]

Apparently he died sometime before Jesus’ public ministry.

No account is given of that. But then, the Gospel’s have no coverage of most of the first 30 years of Jesus’ life either, the one exception being the trip to the Temple when he was about 12.

 

[Liberalsaved]

Fishing. You know how guys are.

 

[FightingFat]

Liberalsaved:

Fishing. You know how guys are.

LOL!!

This might be useful

Death. This is the last we hear of St. Joseph in the sacred writings, and we may well suppose that Jesus’s foster-father died before the beginning of Savior’s public life. In several circumstances, indeed, the Gospels speak of the latter’s mother and brothers (Matthew 12:46; Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19; John 7:3), but never do they speak of His father in connection with the rest of the family; they tell us only that Our Lord, during His public life was referred to as the son of Joseph (John 1:45; 6:42; Luke 4:22) the carpenter (Matthew 13:55). Would Jesus, moreover, when about die on the Cross, have entrusted His mother to John’s care, had St. Joseph been still alive? According to the apocryphal “Story of Joseph the Carpenter”, the holy man reached his hundred and eleventh year when he died, on 20 July (A. D. 18 or 19). St. Epiphanius gives him ninety years of age at the time of his demise; and if we are to believe the Venerable Bede, he was buried in the Valley of Josaphat. In truth we do not know when St. Joseph died; it is most unlikely that he attained the ripe old age spoken of by the “Story of Joseph” and St. Epiphanius. The probability is that he died and was buried at Nazareth.