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.
Teaching on Moses
56-0513 §122
Isn't that beautiful? Now, "Jesus Loves The Little Children Of The World." Give us a chord, sister. Now, you all turn right around this way to me, you little girls. I want to sing, "Jesus Loves The Little Children Of The World." How many knows it? All right, let's sing now. Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world; Red and yellow, black and white, They are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Believest thou this?
50-0716 §40
Years ago, we had a good old fashion church, they tell me. I didn't--wasn't in them in them days. Where the people got together, they sang praises to God, they shouted and praised Him, glorified Him. And today? My! All that's faded away. It's time to get back (That's right.) to the days when God will bless us. Notice, then Mary, on her road up, as we go with our drama. She was walking along, probably singing some hymn, and chanting some Psalm. All of a sudden, a big Light, let's say, swarmed before her. And standin...
Believest thou this?
53-0906A §39
Here she goes, goes down through the city everywhere telling people she's going to have a baby knowing no man. Why, sure. She just took God at His Word. Right up into the hills of Judea she went. She'd heard about Elisabeth. Heard she had a blessing too. Now, that's the way real born-again people do. When they hear somebody gets the Holy Ghost, away they go to find out all about it. Amen. When God does something to heal somebody, the next neighbor comes over and just joins in, and happy and rejoicing with it. So ri...
Mary's belief
61-0121 §42
Look at Zechariah. Now the angel Gabriel came to him. He was in the temple ministering, and when he did, burning incense was his lot, standing at the altar. And he happened to look at the right-hand side, the right-hand side of the altar. I guess you always wonder why I bring the people this way. It's where He stands. So, at the right-hand side of the altar, and there stood an angel. And told him that after the days of his ministration there he was going home and be with his wife, and she'd conceive and bear a son,...
Elijah
55-0301 §10
People who give to people thinking that they'd get a reward for it, well, they don't have any reward. It's those who give freely from the bottom of their heart. That says, "I just give it freely. Not that I expect anything in return." Jesus said that the Gentiles, or unbeliever, do such as that. They give when they're expect to be given back. But we, the children of God, give when we don't want any return. We just give it. And now the woman had no ... she proved it a little later. She had no alternative of giving t...