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Who is Mary the mother of Joses and who is Joses at Mark 15: 47?
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Steefen
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May 20, 2015 - 3:37 pm

The Gospel of Mark, Chapter 15, verse 47: Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses watched where he was laid.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he was laid.

Darby Bible Translation
And Mary of Magdala and Mary the [mother] of Joses saw where he was put.

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gmatthews

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May 20, 2015 - 5:15 pm

Obviously it was the mother of Josephus.

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Steefen
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May 24, 2015 - 4:37 am

Joses, Brother of Jesus

Joses is only mentioned twice in the New Testament, in parallel passages in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3, which record the people of Nazareth’s rejection of Jesus:

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. Mark 6:3 ESV

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May 27, 2015 - 8:36 pm

@Steefan

 

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he was laid.

Darby Bible Translation
And Mary of Magdala and Mary the [mother] of Joses saw where he was put.”

 

Aren’t those simply variations on the same name? ** you do not have permission to see this link **

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Stephen
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May 28, 2015 - 2:53 am

Wouldn’t “we don’t know” be the appropriate answer?

What I find more than a little annoying is that the tradition couldn’t be bothered to give names to Jesus’ sisters, at least of one of which was named Mary whatchawannabet? 

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May 28, 2015 - 3:11 am

Stephen said
Wouldn’t “we don’t know” be the appropriate answer? 

Things will go better with this topic if you come up with something a little more fanciful than “we don’t know”.  Kiss

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Steefen
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May 28, 2015 - 4:45 am

spiker said
@Steefan

 

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he was laid.

Darby Bible Translation
And Mary of Magdala and Mary the [mother] of Joses saw where he was put.”

 

Aren’t those simply variations on the same name? ** you do not have permission to see this link **

Is it that Jesus is dead at this point in the story that the author does not say Mary the mother of Jesus but Mary the mother of Jesus’ brother, Joses or Joseph?

 

We probably need Dr. Ehrman to explain why is it that the gospels can spell Joseph, husband of Mary and Joseph of Arimathea but when it comes to Jesus’ brother Douay-Rheims and Darby have different spellings.

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