Tasker and D. Hill, say the Matthew 1:25 statement that Joseph “knew her not until she had brought forth her firstborn son” to mean that Joseph and Mary did have normal marital relations after Jesus ‘ birth, and that James, Joses, Jude, and Simon, were the natural sons of Mary and Joseph and, thus, half brothers of
One of the latest discoveries is that Jesus had a twin brother – also known as the apostle Thomas – and that it was actually Thomas who was seen after the supposed resurrection, and not Christ .
Panthera is the name of a soldier said by Celsus to be Jesus’ real father and referred to in passages on Jesus in the Talmud and the Toledot Yeshu .
Mary Magdalene as Jesus’s wife.
In Pullman’s version of the story, Jesus has a twin brother named Christ . “I was intrigued, you see, by the difference between the two parts of the name Jesus Christ that we commonly use interchangeably,” Pullman says.
In John, the readers are told that it was two disciples of John the Baptist ( Andrew and an unnamed disciple) who heard John the Baptist announce Jesus as the “Lamb of God” and then followed Jesus. Andrew then went to his brother Simon, saying, “We have found the Messiah”, and then brought Simon to Jesus.
Thomas first speaks in the Gospel of John. In John 11:16, when Lazarus had recently died, the apostles do not wish to go back to Judea, where some Jews had attempted to stone Jesus . Jesus then said, ” Thomas , because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed.”
According to the canonical gospels, Jesus was arrested and tried by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans.
Some apocryphal accounts state that at the time of her betrothal to Joseph, Mary was 12–14 years old . According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary could have been betrothed at about 12. Hyppolitus of Thebes says that Mary lived for 11 years after the death of her son Jesus, dying in 41 AD.
They want you to know that, buried beneath centuries of misinformation and conspiracy, Jesus had a secret wife , named Mary Magdalene, and he fathered two children with her. And they want you to know that their book on the matter, named the “Lost Gospel,” is on sale soon for $21.74.
Was Judas Iscariot Jesus ‘ brother ? No. Jesus had two “ brothers ” that are mentioned in the New Testament: James and Judas . They were the sons of Mary, the wife of Clopas, so not Jesus’s blood brothers , not even first blood cousins since Mary the wife of Clopas was not the blood sister to Mary the mother of Jesus .
In the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 3:14), Yahweh , the personal name of God, is revealed directly to Moses .
The essential uses of the name of God the Father in the New Testament are Theos (θεός the Greek term for God ), Kyrios (i.e. Lord in Greek) and Patēr (πατήρ i.e. Father in Greek). The Aramaic word “Abba” (אבא), meaning “Father” is used by Jesus in Mark 14:36 and also appears in Romans 8:15 and Galatians 4:6.
Jesus ‘ name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.