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To add to the problem of not knowing enough about Joseph, some apocryphal writings — such as the second-century Protevangelium of James and the fourth-century History of Joseph the Carpenter — muddy the historical waters further, presenting him as a widower with children when he met Mary and claiming that he lived to the age of 111.

In this account, he knew that Mary had taken a vow of virginity, and he was chosen to marry Mary and serve as her protector in part because he was old and not interested in starting another family.

Joseph is a major figure in the nativity stories in Matthew and Luke.

He is a wonderful God who works through men and women to accomplish His wonderful purposes.

Sometime we need to just go and let God worry about the rest.

He wasnt born in Jerusalem nor were his alleged parents …he was never a Jewish.

When Jesus authority was challenged by the Pharisees, they declared that their own authority stemmed from the fact that they were sons of Abraham.

Why is that on the first tablet of the two tablets, culminating the commands to know that God is and should be acknowledged as such? When Mary left the house of Zachariah she was pregnant.

He believed that the word from God was true, and he complied with what God had said.