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and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
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Joseph Accepts Jesus as His Son
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
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But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
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But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
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On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
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But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
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“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
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I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
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The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
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“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
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Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
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Marriage at the Resurrection
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
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Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
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Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
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At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
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they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.
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For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
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Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
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Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
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Jesus Has Risen
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
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Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
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For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married.
