[blackpacific]

It is amazing when the Sacred Scripture explicitly names two of them as sons of another man and it falls on deaf ears. James the son of Alpheus must have been with Jesus all the time, like peas in a pod. He was Jesus “brother in Christ”.

I feel at times that I have many, many brothers and sisters in Christ. According the protestant logic/bias/pride, that would make me a natural son of Mary. I am okay with that, I really am.

[MHGinTN]

I wonder, have you ever even considered that maybe these 'sons of Alpheus' can still be Jesus's younger sibling brothers from Mary by another father? well of course a Catholic cannot allow that to register as a possibility since catholiciism insists Mary remained a virgin after the birth of Jesus. I mean, Joseph is not hear of after Jesus's twelfth year so Mary may have predeceased Joseph and as a widow married another man and had children who would be Jesus's brothers.

Or maybe you know more about Joseph's life and death than non-Catholics and would like to show why this is not a possibility?

[ealgeone]

you do realize James was a common name in NT times much as it is now? right?

It does nothing to take away that James was the brother of Christ as Paul, Matthew, and Mark noted.

[Elsie]

...and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, ....

1 woman or two??

 

In John 19:25 we read, "Standing by the foot of the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary of Magdala."

3 women or 4??

 

Cross reference this with Matthew 27:56: "Among them [at the cross] were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee."

3 women?

 

Why leave out --->  Matthew 27:55

Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs.

 

 

  his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary of Magdala." <-same; obviously -> Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee."

3 women?3-4 women or 5-6??