Joseph

First named at Mat 1 16

Passages

15

Named in

New Testament (3 books)

The name

• Ἰωσὴφ Iōsēph — Joseph lexicon

Family

• Father: Heli Luk 3:23 disputed

  Luke names Heli. Matthew 1:16 names Jacob. The usual harmonisations -- that one traces legal descent and the other physical, or that one runs through Mary -- are reconstructions offered to reconcile the two, not statements either Gospel makes.

• Spouse: Mary Mat 1:24
• Ward: Jesus of Nazareth Luk 3:23 disputed

  Luke says Jesus was "as was supposed" the son of Joseph. The genealogies name different fathers for Joseph himself -- Jacob in Matthew 1:16, Heli in Luke 3:23 -- and the harmonisations proposed since Julius Africanus are reconstructions, not statements of

Veneration

Roman Catholic

Venerated — Saint Joseph Feast: 19 March; 1 May

Patron of the universal Church.

Eastern Orthodox

Venerated — Joseph the Betrothed Feast: Sunday after Nativity

Places named alongside

• Egypt 2 verses
• Nazareth 2 verses
• Bethlehem 1 1 verse
• Galilee 1 verse
• Jerusalem 1 verse
• Judea 1 verse

Named in

• Matthew 1:16
• Matthew 1:18
• Matthew 1:19
• Matthew 1:20
• Matthew 1:24
• Matthew 2:13
• Matthew 2:19
• Luke 1:27
• Luke 2:4
• Luke 2:16
• Luke 2:43
• Luke 3:23
• Luke 4:22
• John 1:45
• John 6:42

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