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is it a sin to marry someone and have children
Thoughts on Joseph being a widower with children, prior to Mary? Saint James would have been a half brother to Jesus in that case.
Tradition agrees with this 👍 Jesus Christ is described as being the brother of James, Justus, Jude, and Simon, and several sisters (Mark 6:3; Matthew 13:55). A tradition at least as early as the second century, still adopted by the Orthodox Church, explains that these "brothers and sisters" were from Joseph's marriage to Salome who left him a widower before he was betrothed to Mary and so making them step-brothers and step-sisters. He was the older brother to Cleopas, who was also married to a woman named Mary.
