Tag: Saint Joseph

Saint Joseph (Hebrew יוֹסֵף, “Yosef”; Greek: Ἰωσήφ) is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ (in distinction to God the Father, his “heavenly father”).
The earliest Christian records, the Pauline epistles make no reference to Jesus’ father, and nor does the Gospel of Mark, the first of the Gospels. The first appearance of Joseph is therefore in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, both of which trace Joseph’s lineage back to King David. The two lists give differing genealogies: Matthew says that Joseph’s father was called Jacob, but Luke says he was the son of Heli.
Matthew and Luke are also the only Gospels to include the infancy narratives, and again they differ. In Luke, Joseph lives in Nazareth and travels to Bethlehem in compliance with the requirements of a Roman census. Subsequently, Jesus was born there. In Matthew, Joseph was in Bethlehem, the city of David, where Jesus is born, and then moves to Nazareth with his family…