If you read the accounts in the scriptures I've listed above ( they're not in the KJV, and I'm repeating this from memory, so please don't hold me to complete accuracy ), Mary was a virgin all of her life. She was raised in the temple until the age of 12 or 14 when the priests, afraid of having a young woman roaming the temple and the problems that might cause, gave her to Joseph, a very righteous man and widower of approximately 90 years of age, at the time. Yeshua's siblings were all from Joseph's first wife, according to texts listed above.
Mary thru the Holy Spirit conceived around 14-16 years of age. Again, memory fails. Joseph died at well over 100 years of age, but before the Crucifixion. Yeshua was a young man when Joseph died, and at his side when he passed.
I missed that in the Gospels.
Just where did you find that?
Matthew or Luke, who deal with the genealogy of Jesus?
You are "remembering" from "Scripture" what does not exist in Scripture, but which is from apocryphal Gospel of James, one of many fake pseudonymous (it lies about being written by James) wannabe gospels, a fantasy which even Catholicism rejects as Scripture despite her idolatrous hyper-"hyperdulia" of their Mary.
Aquinas, responding to the the Protevangelium of James teaching that that midwives were present at Christ's birth, states, "Jerome says (Adv. Helvid. iv): "No midwife was there, no officious women interfered. She was both mother and midwife. 'With swaddling clothes,' says he, 'she wrapped up the child, and laid Him in a manger.'" These words prove the falseness of the apocryphal ravings." (http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4035.htm)
Of course, Aquinas does so because he want to exclude Mary from suffering pain during childbirth, which would mean she was a sinner, which exceeding exception to the norm the Holy Spirit would characteristically, state, as He did with much less notable exceptions to the norm.
There was no 90 year old (which is only in your memory) axe swinging, building contractor, journeying Joseph, or vestal virgin Mary in the temple, but what you are basically remembering is from the Protevangelium of James/Gospel of James, a
"pseudepigraphal (noncanonical and unauthentic) work written about the mid-2nd century ad [possibly composed in Egypt] to enhance the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Christian tradition. TThe story of Marys childhood as given in the Protevangelium has no parallel in the New Testament, and reference to a nine-year stay in the Temple of Jerusalem contradicts Jewish customs. - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Protevangelium-of-James
The majority of scholars argue for a non-Jewish milieu given the authors apparent ignorance of Palestinian geography (e.g., Joseph prepares to depart from Bethlehem to Judea, 21:1) and aspects of Judaism (e.g., Marys residency in the Temple and Joachims marginalization for childlessness are both suspect, and Mary is said to be of the tribe of David). However, the author has sufficient knowledge of the Septuagint to borrow phrares and use its characters as models for Anna and Joachim and, unlike the majority of early Christian writers, he does not portray Jewish leaders negatively. - http://www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/uploads/dictionary-entry-samples.doc
And besides the fanciful additions, you have real contradictions btwn this and the gospel accounts, as detailed by Bodie Hodge of answersingenesis.org:
Table of some contradictions between The Protoevangelium of James and the Bible:
Protoevangelium of James4 | The Bible | ||
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1 | Gabriel is called an archangel (Chapter 9:22), which was a common designation for Gabriel in apocryphal literature written after the first century. (For example, see Revelation of Paul, The Book of John Concerning the Falling Asleep of Mary, and The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God.) | The Bible never identifies Gabriel as an archangel, but Michael is described as an archangel in Jude 1:9. The idea of Gabriel as an archangel seems to be a misconception that began in the second century. | |
2 | Marys response to the angel is different than what is recorded in Scripture. What! Shall I conceive by the living God, and bring forth as all other women do? (Chapter 9:12).5 [Another translation of this work is available at http://ministries.tliquest.net/theology/apocryphas/nt/protevan.htm. Marys reply is rendered differently in this version, in which she replied, What! By the living God, shall I conceive and bring forth as all other women do? The angel responded, Not so, O Mary, but the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. This version makes better sense, since the angel corrects her thinking that this would occur via natural means. Walkers translation (Alexander Walker, Esq., in Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, The Ante-Nicene Fathers,) makes little sense.] | Luke 1:34 states, Then Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I do not know a man? | |
3 | Elizabeth fled the Bethlehem region with her son John (the Baptist) to the mountains because of Herods wrath when he decided to kill all the baby boys around and in Bethlehem (Chapter 16:3). | Concerning John the Baptist, Luke 1:80 states, So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel. It was Joseph, Mary, and Jesus who fled from Bethlehem because of Herod (Matthew 2:1315). | |
4 | Jesus was born in a cave outside the city of Bethlehem (Chapters 12:1114:31). | Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the town of David, according to Luke 2:4, 11 and Matthew 2:1. | |
5 | The angel of the Lord, when speaking to Joseph in a dream, said to take Mary but does not mention having her as a wife. The priest chastised Joseph and accused him for taking Mary as a wife secretly by the priest. Joseph takes her home but is reluctant to call her his wife when they go to Bethlehem (Chapters 10:1718, 11:14, 12:23). | Matthew 1:19 reveals that Joseph was already Marys husband (they were betrothed) before the angel visited him in a dream. Matthew 1:24 points out that after the angel visited Joseph, he kept her as his wife. | |
6 | Mary wrapped Jesus in swaddling cloths and hid him in a manger at the inn to keep him from the massacre by Herods men (Chapter 16:2). | Mary and Joseph were warned of Herods plot by an angel, and they fled to Egypt (Matthew 2:1314). | |
7 | Wise men came to Bethlehem and inquired of Herod where the Child was born (Chapter 21:12). | Wise men came to Jerusalem to inquire where the child king was (Matthew 2:1). | https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/is-the-perpetual-virginity-of-mary-a-biblical-view/ Some invoke certain statements from the the Babylonian Talmud (with its superstitions and fables) and or the apocryphal 2 Maccabees for support of temple virgins, neither of which are reliable sources as to what is Scriptural, nor does it make Mary a temple virgin, a vow which would require her father's assent. |