Did Mary Give Birth to Any Children After Jesus?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. After the virgin birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph lived as husband and wife and had other children.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Matthew 1:24-25 says Joseph “knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son.” “Till” shows that after Jesus’ birth Joseph knew her as his wife, and “firstborn” points to others coming after.
- Matthew 13:55-56 names Jesus’ brothers: James, Joses, Simon, and Judas, and adds, “and his sisters, are they not all with us?”
- Mark 6:3 repeats the same list of brothers and mentions sisters.
- John 7:5 speaks of “his brethren” who didn’t believe at that time.
- Galatians 1:19 mentions “James the Lord’s brother.”
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If Jesus is called Mary’s “firstborn,” that implies more were born later.
- The people in Nazareth named His brothers and referred to His sisters present among them; that’s natural family language, not distant relatives.
- Mary was a pure virgin when Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost, but after His birth she and Joseph entered normal married life. That is honorable and Scriptural.
4) Reinforcing Statement
The Bible speaks plainly. We honor Mary as a godly woman, but we stay with the Word: Jesus had brothers and sisters born to Mary after His birth.
Existing Follow-Up Answers
- Couldn't Psalm 69:8 Be Symbolically Referring to the Whole Nation of Israel as Opposed to the Narrow Interpretation of Mary and the Lord's Brethren?
1) Direct Answer No. Psalm 69 is spoken in the singular of the Messiah, and the New Testament applies it directly to Jesus. "My mother's children - Every "thing" God Ever "borrowed" Was Paid Back with Interest. Would It Not Be Inconsistent of God's Character to Borrow Mary's Womb and Not Repay?
1) Direct Answer No inconsistency at all. God did not "borrow" Mary's womb; God created a body by His Word and overshadowed a virgin. Then He hon - There Is History That Joseph Was a Widower with Four Children. Can You Prove That the Children Attributed to Mary Were Not Indeed Inherited?
1) Direct Answer Yes. The "widower with four children" story is not Scripture. The Bible presents Jesus' brothers and sisters as Mary's own child
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Mary's belief
60-0311 §12
And Mary might've said something like this: "Yes, darling, but I want to ask you something. What happened to that great God that He isn't just as great today as He was then? Did you notice the rabbi after that wonderful message? 'Then alas,' he said, 'Jehovah must have turned His back on us because that He doesn't perform miracles anymore.'" But Joseph quickly picked it up, and said, "But, Mary, I believe that God is just as great and powerful as He ever was." Upon that, Mary's mother, Anna, must have come to the d...
Mary's belief
59-0409 §11
And as she moved along, and she raised her head again, and there stood this great light before her, perhaps the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. Come walking from that light came the great Archangel Gabriel, and he said, "Hail, Mary! (means to stop) Blessed art thou among the women." Hard telling, the other women went to the well that morning, perhaps thinking about the washing they had to do or some task or some society in the church they had to take care of; but Mary was thinking on the Script...
From that time
60-0716 §67
...ve; she didn't wait till she felt life; she didn't wait for no positive... The angel's word was enough for her. She'd met God. Now, if you could do that now, if we had more Marys here tonight, if we had Marys that didn't, "Wait till I... See if I'm just a little bit better, before I say anything." Before she felt anything or anything else, she just took God at His Word and started praising Him for it. Oh, my. Let's follow her a few minutes. Let's see her right quick. She had a cousin named Elisabeth. And Elisabeth....
Shalom
64-0119 §35
Notice how infallible the Word is. Mary and Joseph... Now, to you my dear Catholic friends, that said Mary was the mother of God. Mary wasn't even the mother of Jesus, let alone being the mother of God. How could she be? Not one time did He ever address her as "Mother." Not at all. They come to Him one time and said, "Your mother and brothers wait outside." He looked out over His congregation, said, "Who is my mother? Who is my brethren?" Looked to His disciples, said, "The ones that does the will of my Father, tha...
We have seen His star and have come to worship Him
63-1216 §36
And then we notice she, too, after she had this visitation, she was so elated by the angel's message, that she took up into the hilly country of Judea; from Nazareth, where she was a native, of the city of Nazareth, a very mean, little city. And when she got up there, her cousin Elisabeth was also (already six months) to be mother, who had been called barren. Her husband, Zacharias, was a priest at the temple. And one day while he was waving the offerings, which was the burning incense, rather, over the prayers of...