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Chapter 1 - brothers and sisters | |
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No text that claims historic accuracy to the life of Jesus, whether it be Christian, psuedo-Christian or Jewish claims otherwise that Jesus had at least more than two siblings. |
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It is clear in reading the Gospels that no attempt is made to hide the fact that Jesus had brothers and sisters. |
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The reason for this is probably the fact that the death of his brother James (the Just), the first Patriarch/Pope and anointed leader of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus is a historical figure for which substantially more evidence and references exist, than even Jesus himself. |
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It was the cold and brutal murder of James the Just around 62 CE by the same family of High priests that were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus, the House of Ananus (Hanan), that organized his murder with the help of Paul of Tarsus. |
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It is also this murder of a national hero that was said to have been the catalyst for the rebellion that ultimately led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. |
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Now if even this history sounds strange and alien to a person who has been brought up a Christian, it is not surprising. For while the Christian churches are happy to acknowledge that Jesus had family, that is where the explanation usually stops. |
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From that point on, most Christian scholar are obsessed in introducing complex genealogies to provide Jesus was effectively an only child, or his brothers and sisters were adopted or simply that the whole story about his brothers and sisters is a terrible misunderstanding. |
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Why such mistruth? Why such deliberate desire to avoid what is one of few clear indications from the Bible that Jesus had brothers and sisters? |
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We will consider the tradition of underlying motives for this behaviour including trying to answer exactly who were the brothers and sisters of Jesus and what happened to them. |
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