You've got me. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. And not to proud to admit it. Nah, I meant half-brothers and sisters. Remember the manger scene? No step brothers or step-sisters. Jesus is referred to as her firstborn (Luke 2:7). And they were blood kin through Mary of course.
That is a good point. I realize that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but if Joseph had other children at the time of Jesus’ birth, why were they not mentioned in Luke? It seems that Joseph’s entire household should have been with him.
GOOD point!
If there had been Joe's kids anywhere in the picture; I'm just SURE the whole family would have been going to be counted in the census!