[SoothingDave]

No response to the request to identify which James is the brother of the Lord yet. You'd think one of these Biblical scholars would take up the argument and explain which of these Jameses is Joseph's son.

If this is a listing of His cousins why isn't John the Baptist mentioned here?

Who said the list was cousins and who said it was an exhaustive list?

My post is 2061. Please identify for me which Jameses are the blood half-brother of Jesus and tell me when he displaces James the Lesser.

SD

[gscc]

James, the Brother of Jesus, was the first Bishop of Jerusalem.  Even the Jewish historian Josephus tells us that James, the brother of Jesus, was tried and executed in the year A.D. 62 in Jerusalem.  Simeon, the second Bishop, is noted by historians as a close relative of Jesus and James.  Simeon was bishop at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem AD 70 and may have gone with most of the Christians to Pella. About the year 106 or 107 he was crucified under Trajan.