[wbarmy]

Maybe not.

Everything I have read about the households and families of that period would have mitigated against younger children giving the eldest much grief.

But how they must have hated Him.

Which is why He picked John to take care of His mother.

[metmom]

There's this too, where they showed their contempt for Him.

John 7:1-5 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” For not even his brothers believed in him.

[Boogieman]

“Everything I have read about the households and families of that period would have mitigated against younger children giving the eldest much grief.”

Good point. If Joseph had died young, which wouldn’t be uncommon, Jesus would be in charge of the family members, even over Mary, and that would not be an appealing prospect to younger siblings who had tormented Him.

[Elsie]

Toss Him in a cistern and He’d just WALK out of it!