Joseph (father of Jesus)
40 subentries
- Joseph (father of Jesus) (122:1sec) (122:5sec). See also Jesus: family
- at Jesus’ first Passover (Paper 125)
- attitude
- angry with Jesus about Scythopolis games (124:3.8)
- explained reasons for family discipline (123:3.9)
- faithfully discharged parental responsibilities (124:3.2) (124:4.4)
- held spiritual concept of Messiah (122:5.10) (123:0.5) (123:6.8)
- held to Babylonian view of Judaism (122:5.11)
- mild-mannered; conscientious; subject to mild spiritual discouragement (122:5.1)
- never failed fully to discuss Jesus’ questions (123:2.3)
- perplexed over Gabriel’s message; dream (122:3.2) (122:4sec)
- background and heritage
- 8 brothers and sisters (122:5.1) (123:6.1?) (128:7.8?)
- average person of day and generation (119:7.7)
- black-eyed brunet (122:5.5)
- blue race, Nodites, Sumerians, Abraham were ancestors; genealogies (122:1.1,3) (122:4.3-4) (123:0.5)
- educated far above average (122:5.5)
- fluent speaker of Aramaic and Greek (123:3.1)
- marriage to Mary in March, 8 B.C. (122:2.2) (122:5.8-9)
- poor at birth of Jesus (122:10.2)
- conferred with Zacharias in Jerusalem (122:8.4)
- did not know cause of earthquake (123:3.2-3)
- family became believers in Jesus (122:5.10)
- found Jesus teaching in temple (125:6.4-8)
- Gabriel chose family for incarnation (122:0.3) (122:1.3)
- killed September 25, 8 A.D. working on Herod’s building in Sepphoris (126:2sec) (126:5.11) (185:4.1)
- ordered Jesus not to draw (124:1.4-5)
- owned a donkey (122:7.4,7) (125:3.2)
- owned houses with partner Jacob the stone mason (126:3.1)
- owned property in Nazareth and Capernaum (126:1.4)
- prevailed upon to remain in Bethlehem for a year (122:8.4)
- removed parchment from doorpost (124:4.7)
- Sabbath walks with Jesus (123:5.12)
- supply shop taken over by his brother (126:5.8)
- supported his parents; father recently disabled (122:7.4)
- trouble with Jesus regarding his prayers (123:3.6)
- unfortunate he could not have lived (124:4.6)
- work
- became builder; trebled family income (122:1.1) (122:5.1) (123:3.7)
- employed as foreman in Alexandria (123:0.1)
- in Sepphoris (124:5.5)
Cross-references
- See also Jesus: family
Cited alongside
Headwords that cite the same paragraphs as this one, commonest first. The number is how many subentries each has.
- Mary (mother of Jesus) 49
- Jesus 796
- Bethlehem (Judea) 8
- Messiah 31
- Nazareth 19
- Sepphoris 7
- compromise 11
- David (King) 22