SECRET LIFE & HIDDEN FAMILY OF JESUS: Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Magdelene, Ma'Gadol'Ina, Benjamin, Judah, Levi, James the Less, Jude Thaddeus Lebbaeus, Joses Matthew Levi, Simeon, Salome, Zebedee, Jame the Greater, John, Simon bar Jonah, Peter, Andrew, St. Joseph the Carpenter, Tecton, tecton, mason, itinerant mosaic repairman, Olivet, Nicodemus, Mary, Martha, lazarus, chief scribe of Benjamin, Hannah, Anna, Stephen, Judas, Joseph Barnabus, Steven, John Mark, Iscariot, Paul, Saul, Jerusalem, Galilee, Petra, Nabatean, Herod, Rechabites of Jonadab

THE SECRET LIFE & HIDDEN FAMILY OF JESUS

CONTROVERSIAL QUESTIONS
ABOUT JESUS & HIS HEIRS

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new view of Jesus as a
husband, father & rich
founder of royal family
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evidence concerning the
real life and family of
Jesus.

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT JESUS & HIS FAMILY

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WHEN EXACTLY WAS JESUS BORN?: Sundown, Sept 11, 3BC, new moon of Elul, 1st day of 6th month on Hebrew calendar.
WAS JOSEPH A WIDOWED CARPENTER?: No. He was about 15 and probably a mosaic artist.
WAS JESUS' MOTHER A POOR GIRL WHO HAD NO OTHER CHILDREN?: No. Mary was a wealthy Princess of David's line and had at least 8 children.
WAS JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA JESUS' UNCLE?: Yes. He was Jesus' mother Mary's younger twin brother.
WHO WERE THE MAGI?: Several Ephraimite wise men serving at Babylon & the King of Petra who came to the feasts every year. This time they expected to see the Child Simeon had prophesied of the previous year.
WHAT WAS THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM?: Jupiter was the Messiah's "star" and its position was followed all the time for signs, but the special "sign" was a conjunction of Jupiter & Venus on June 17, 2 BC.
WAS JESUS ADOPTED?: Yes. By His uncle, as the law required. The adoption papers are the genealogy of Luke.
WAS JESUS MARRIED TO MARY MAGDELENE?: No. He is espoused to the Church. She was Jesus' step-mother.
WASN'T JESUS REQUIRED TO MARRY TO BE A RABBI?: Jesus had not studied as a Rabbi, John 8 says. He was a "small-r" rabbi, with no marriage prospects because no one knew who Jesus' father was, and He was not adopted until He was about 30 years old.
DID JESUS GO TO INDIA?: Possibly. Joseph of Arimathea probably took Jesus on some of his merchant journeys.
WHO WERE JESUS' CHILDHOOD FRIENDS?: Jesus seems closer to the family of Lazarus than the family in Nazareth.
WHO WERE JESUS' CLOSEST RELATIVES?: Jesus had at least one maternal aunt & uncle, four half-brothers, three half-sisters, a step-uncle, a step-aunt, a step-sister, an adoptive grandfather, and many cousins--most of whom are named in the New Testament.
WHO WAS RELATED TO JESUS BY MARRIAGE, BUT NOT BLOOD?: Jesus' aunt Salome was mother of Peter's wife. So Jesus was related to Peter, Andrew, and their father Jonah. One of Jesus' sisters was wed at Cana to Simon Zealotes. Jesus' step-sister Anna wed Stephen.
WHO ELSE WAS RELATED TO JESUS?: Jesus was related by marriage and by blood to Stephen and Anna's children Mary and Joseph Barnabus, and Mary's husband Judas Iscariot, and their son John Mark. Also, by marriage to Stephen's father's family.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER MORE DISTANT RELATIVES OF JESUS IN THE NT?: Jesus' grandmother Hannah ("St. Anne"), widowed in her 30's(1 BC), went to Britain and married a Silurian prince, ancestor of "Pope" Linus and Claudia, wife of Paul's brother Rufus, father of four saints.
WAS THE NEW TESTAMENT ABOUT A FAMILY FEUD?: Yes. The house of David's royal claims (Jesus' Family) were opposed by two Hasmonean lines, two Zadokite (Sadducean) priestly lines, Roman royal families, and the Edomites of Herod's line.
WERE JESUS & JOHN THE BAPTIST ESSENES?: Hardly. Jesus was occupied working for his uncle and John was legally exiled across the Jordan from the Essenes.
WHEN WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED?: Thursday, April 26, 31 AD, according to historical and astronomical evidence.
HOW WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED?: On the same fig tree as two revolutionaries atop Mt. Olivet. Each had his own "cross-piece" to which his wrists were nailed from the back side after his arms were bent over the top. They were naked.
DID THE RESURRECTED JESUS PASS THROUGH LOCKED DOORS?: No. He appeared in the midst of the Apostles, apparently in an inter-dimensional manner, as a solid being, not as a ghost or apparition.
WHY DOES NICODEMUS HANDLE JESUS' DEAD BODY ON THE PASSOVER?: The Law required Jesus' closest male relatives to bury him. Nicodemus was the grandfather of Jesus by adoption, being the father of Jesus' adoptive mother, Mary of Bethany, the Magdalene.
WAS JESUS CONSIDERED BY PAGANS TO BE A REAL HISTORICAL FIGURE?: Absolutely. The pagans questioned who & what Jesus was, not whether he had really lived. Doubt about the historical reality of Jesus is a modern idea, not an ancient one.

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