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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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
59-0409 §36
Taking God at His Word... Mary, oh how she was rejoicing and patting her on the back, and Elisabeth patting her. And I can hear Elisabeth say to Mary, "O dear, I never seen you look so happy. It must be that you and Joseph are married." "No." "Well, what are you so happy about?" She said, "I know what you're happy about. Because that I'm to be mother." Said, "Yes, that's part of it; I knew you was to be mother." "Well," she said, "Mary, that's true. But I've hid myself for six months. And I'm kind of bothered, Mary...
Birth Pains
65-0124 §50
...ay---you know, didn't have television (thank the Lord) for that day. So they was down upon the hillside of Judaea. There was a baby born, a star appeared, and so forth. But after eight days the mother brought the little baby in, wrapped in swaddling cloth. It's swaddling cloth I'm told, that was a... They didn't have nothing to put on. It was a little rag off of a yoke of an ox, I'm told, that was this swaddling cloth. Here come Joseph and them coming in with this little baby. I'd imagine the mothers stood back fro...
Believest thou this?
50-0115 §24
And now, during this time, before the birth of Jesus, why Mary, the mother, the little virgin lived in Nazareth, brought up there. And even before that, John had to come as a forerunner. We look at John the Baptist, what a great man he was. Jesus, at this time of our message, was going down to see John the Baptist. He drawn all the regions around Judea and Jordan, down to Jordan to hear him. What a great man he was. He also was foreordained. And when he was borned, Zacharias... Before he was borned, his father was...
About Jesus
55-0612 §34
Let's give a little drama here for the sake of the children, many of them looking, and listening. I can see Mary; as oriental types, maybe it's Monday morning; that's a bad time for the women. It's wash day, or, it is at our house. Then I can see Mary go down to the virgins' fountain and get some water. She sets a pot upon her head, as the oriental custom, or either on her shoulders. She comes walking back up along the side of the path. And all at once, a great light comes in the path, and she looks into this light...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §56
Now, when her children was to be delivered, they were twins. And when the twin... The first baby that was to be born, the old Jewish custom, the first child has the birthright, the first child to break forth. And that, remember, was her first child. None of the rest of the boys had had any children by her. She had never had a child till this time. And when her first child broke forth, it was just a hand. And the midwife put a scarlet streak around it, because a scarlet streak spake of redemption that the first son...