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Mar 8, 2024 · Answer. When Jesus was on the cross, both the apostle John and Mary the mother of Jesus stood nearby. In John 19:26–27 we read, “When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’.
Jul 8, 2021 · Scripture readers assume Mary had children beyond Jesus for more than one reason. For example, Merriam-Webster shows the word “cousin” didn’t exist until the 14th century. Instead, “brother” or “sister” were probably written in Scripture.
- Nobody claims that the apostle John was a son of Mary, though (in Protestant circles) James is identified as one of four half-brothers of Jesus. In...
- Mary had other family members who would look after her - even ignoring if she had other children, she was part of a close knit and influential comm...
- If Mary had had other sons besides Jesus, it would have made little sense to assign John to be her son. But let's look at the Biblical evidence. Is...
- So when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then He said to...
- If Mary had other sons besides Jesus, why did Jesus assign Apostle John to take care of his mother? That Jesus had natural (half) brothers is also...
- Since little is known about Mary after Jesus ascension, the answer remains only speculation. Why would Jesus assigned Apostle John to take care of...
- Various explanation may be offered as the reason Jesus specified that the John the Apostle should care for his mother. Jesus' own brothers did not...
- The OP question is a good side-argument for assuming the Orthodox/Catholic traditional doctrine that Mary had no other offsprings than the Lord Jes...
Children of Mary. — The Sodality of Children of Mary Immaculate owes its origin to the manifestation of the Virgin Immaculate of the Miraculous Medal, on which the Church has placed a seal, by appointing the twenty-seventh of November as the feast.
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is a central figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto.
- John The Apostle
- John The Author
- John The Martyr
We get the vast majority of our information about John from the pages of the four gospels. We know that John was the younger brother of James and the son of Zebedee (Mark 10:35; Luke 5:10). Though not directly stated, we know that John was called the beloved disciple, or “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:20-24). His occupation was as a fishe...
John wrote 5 books in the New Testament. He wrote The Gospel According to John, First, Second and Third John, and he was the penman of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. All of his books were written later in life and after all the other books in the Bible were recorded. We don’t know the exact time or order of the books having been writte...
We know little about John’s later life and death from the Bible. The most insightful bit of information comes from John 21 when the risen Christ was talking to Peterabout Peter’s death. After Jesus told Peter that he would not live long Peter asked about John’s death. Jesus replied that if John lived until Christ’s return, that was not Peter’s conc...
What happened to Mary? In her maturity, Mary may have been widowed, or Joseph may have travelled to surrounding villages and towns to look for work. Builders, stonemasons and carpenters from Nazareth would have been hard-pressed to support themselves if they worked only in their own village.
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Only John states that Mary was present at the crucifixion, and that Jesus gave her into the care of the beloved disciple with the words, “Woman, behold your son!,” “Behold, your mother!” (John 19:26, 27). Why did Jesus give Mary into the care of her nephew rather than one of her own sons?
