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JESUS' BIRTH & YOUTH JESUS' VERY INTERESTING GENEALOGY GABRIEL'S AMAZING NEWS FOR ZECHARIAH GABRIEL'S AMAZING NEWS FOR MARY, 1 GABRIEL'S AMAZING NEWS FOR MARY, 2 GABRIEL'S AMAZING NEWS FOR MARY, 3 MARY VISITS HER COUSIN ELIZABETH, 1 MARY VISITS HER COUSIN ELIZABETH, 2 MARY'S "MAGNIFICAT" PRAISES GOD THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST JESUS' PUBLIC MINISTRY JESUS' CRUCIFIXION JESUS' RESURRECTION | THE EPISTLES REVELATION OF JOHN |
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I like many of these, but I detect a theme: Joseph is portrayed as an earthly, working man, with heavily muscled hands and arms. In contrast, the angels are ethereal, sometimes transparent, very much unsullied and unworldly.
Joseph appears to be sleeping from weariness or possibly worry about Mary. The angel’s message must have put his mind at ease, for he married her in the end, despite the public shame.
This contrasts him with Zecharias, who wanted a sign that the angel was from God. Joseph doesn’t doubt or question, but obeys, to his eternal credit.