Mary's virginity and the brothers of Jesus

Michie said:

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During the last few hundred years, it has become in vogue for some Protestant Christians to not only question the virginity of Mary, but to actually oppose it openly and militantly. Many traditional protestants have gone the way of doubting the virginity of Mary altogether, relegating it to an early Christian myth. Meanwhile, most of the more contemporary Evangelical Christians firmly adhere to the virginity of Mary during Christ's conception on up to his birth, but vigorously deny her virginity thereafter. This article will demonstrate why both assumptions are wrong.

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Mary’s Virginity and the Brothers of Jesus

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John 2:12 After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

brothers listed as separate from disciples.


1 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. 2 But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, 3 Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. 4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him."
John 7 NIV


20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
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31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.

34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
Mark 3 NIV


As you see in Mark 3, as elsewhere, there are His disciples and His family, distinguished as 2 separate groups.

It's the first sentence of the article that is so provoking, and provokes everyone.

And the 2nd sentence.

That initial lumping of all people together, often people of very different views.

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