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Question: Did Jesus have any brothers and sisters? What ever
happened to Joseph, his father?

1. Yes. Mark 6:3. Acts 1:14; Gal. 1:19. Best evidence is that James
and Jude who wrote the epistles which bear their names were
brothers of Jesus.

2. Since Joseph, who stood in the stead of a father to Jesus, is
never mentioned after Jesus became an adult, it is assumed that he
was dead by then. He evidently died somewhere between the narrative
recorded in Luke 2, when Jesus was 12, and Joseph is last
mentioned, and the events of Luke 3, which records Jesus beginning
His ministry at the age of 30.



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