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The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi ( Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. "of the same womb") [ 1][ Notes 1] are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, [ 2] and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. [ 3] They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph ...
The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [ 1] Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards, while Luke works back in time from Jesus to Adam. The lists of names are identical between Abraham and David (whose royal ancestry affirms Jesus' Messianic title ...
Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglicanism and Lutheranism. [ 3][ 4] In Catholic traditions, Joseph is regarded as the patron saint of workers and is associated with various feast days. The month of March is dedicated to Saint Joseph.
The Bible offers two explanations for the origins of the name Yosef: first, it is compared to the word asaf from the root /'sp/, ' taken away ': "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach"; Yosef is then identified with the similar root /ysp/, meaning ' add ': "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The L ORD shall add to me another son."
Joseph ( / ˈdʒoʊzəf, - səf /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized : Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [ 2][ a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the ...
Zebedee was presumably a fisherman, "probably of some means." [3] Although named several times in the gospels, the only times he actually appears are in Matthew 4:21-22 and Mark 1:19–20, where he is left in the boat after Jesus called James and John. Mark's note that Zebedee was left with the "hired men" implies the family had some wealth. [4]
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve. The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter. The genealogy for Cain is given in chapter 4, and the genealogy for Seth is in ...
Barnabas ( / ˈbɑːrnəbəs /; Syriac: ܒܪܢܒܐ; Ancient Greek: Βαρνάβας ), born Joseph ( Ἰωσήφ) or Joses ( Ἰωσής ), [ 1] was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Named an apostle in Acts 14 :14, [ 2] he and ...