Judith is gnostic nonsense, not scripture.
Matthew 25 makes it plain that Joseph withheld until Yeshua was born, and then proceeded to follow Hebrew custom, and consummate the marriage.
The proof is in the sons ans daughters they bore, which is acknowledged by the apostles completely.
It is dishonest to attempt to twist it differently, to change Mary into a pagan goddess proxy for Easter.
If you read Matthew 26 the same way, it makes it clear with the same wording that the apostles sat until Jesus went to pray, and then they stopped sitting. Only they didn’t.
That Joseph withheld until Jesus was born is clear, but if you assume he stopped withholding afterward you have to be making an interpretation, because those words are not there.
Also, if Mary was withholding sex from Joseph after the marriage but before Jesus was born, would that not have been sinful since she was not performing her ‘marital duty?’
You may be clear that the marriage was consummated but you didn’t get that from the bible, because it is never stated there. Even if Jesus had brothers and sisters (which I don’t believe, as the words for relative and brother are also often interchanged), how do we know Joseph didn’t have more than one wife?
And I believe that Mary is neither pagan, nor a goddess.
Once Jesus had been born, Easter would have happened whether she was still around or not.
Love, O2