Why did Joseph travel with Virgin Mary?

Question

I am not Christian and I was just wondering. I know that Virgin Mary was kicked out cuz they wouldnt believe that she became pregnant and shes a virgin. Why did Joseph go with her on her travel? Who is he?

Did Joseph witness the angel that said that Mary is now pregnant?

I know she is no longer a virgin after giving birth to Jesus. I meant b4 he was born!

so she became pregnant but was still a virgin and only Joseph believed her because he was her fiance or husband?

sorry if i sound dumb. i never really read the story of them because i am not christian

she wasnt kicked out? ooo. i thought they did that in the movie. but i want the real story. ok

Answer 1

find a Chriatian Bible and read the first two chapters of the Book of Luke.... or here is a link where you can find it http://www.htmlbible.com/kjv30

Answer 2

Mary was not kicked out. She was a virgin when Jesus was conceived. If it was not a Virgin birth, we don't have a Saviour worthy to pay for our Sins. But it was! The first angel announcement came to Mary. (Nope - Joseph did not see this - because>>>)

A second angel came to Joseph an announced that she was having the Son of God, and it was OK! Joseph had every right to divorce her, but in light of God's messenger, kept Mary as his wife.

Caesar Augustus said that the whole world would be taxed and you had to travel to your city of birth to register and pay up. That is why they had to go to Bethlehem, from Nazareth.

Joseph is a very special Jewish man.

Mary was still a virgin even after Jesus's birth, until Joseph had sex with her, and she gave birth to Jesus's brothers and sisters.

Answer 3

Before Mary became pregnant, Joseph was engaged to her. Before anyone found our, Joseph quietly broke the engagement because he did not want her to get stoned. An angel came to him that night, and said that the child was God's son. They got married, and then a law came out that there was to be a head count of people living in the kingdom. each man and his wife, must go to where the man was born, town wise. Because Joseph was born in bethehem, Mary and he went there. That is when Jesus was born.

Answer 4

Mary was not kicked out and Mary and Joseph were married. Not long after they were married, the Roman Emperor, Augustus Caesar, wanted to make a list off all Jewish people. The emperor wanted this list so he could collect taxes from everyone. This meant that the people would have to travel to their hometowns or to the hometowns of their fathers' place their names on the special list there.

Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem. It was a long journey. It was also a tiring journey for Mary, for soon her son would be born. Mary rode on a donkey, and Joseph walked beside her.

Answer 5

Here is the outline:

Mary and Joseph are engaged. This engagement is serious and cheating would be considered adultery.

The angel visits Mary with a question from God. Mary says yes and miraculously becomes pregnant.

Joseph finds out and assumes Mary has committed adultery. He can have her stoned to death but decides to quietly divorce her instead.

The angel visits Joseph and tells him what's happening.

Joseph marries Mary but most believe they never had sex.

Joseph and Mary go to Bethlehem where she gives birth to Jesus.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

This is the true account:

Luke 1:26-38

26 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you."

29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. 31 You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."

34 "How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?"

35 The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. 37 For nothing is impossible with God."

38 "I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be to me as you have said." Then the angel left her.
(from New International Version)


Luke 2:1-12
2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to his own town to register.

4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
(from New International Version)

Answer 7

She was a virgin. Joseph traveled with her because they were engaged, and engagement back then were more bindng and had to be ended with a divorce, which would make them even more outcasts than they already were. They traveled because of a tax-census type thing and had to go or else...something. He did see the angel, because he was going to divorce her. SHe was atill a virgin after jesus because they still had't had sex, cuse it says "And the virgin brought forth a son" and like they were going to then???? i hope that answers your questions.

Answer 8

Catholicism pretends that Mary was 'forever virgin', seemingly ignoring the fact that she had other sons and daughters after Jesus was born.

The bible teaches quite clearly that Jesus had literal brothers and sisters in connection with his human mother Mary. There is no reason to think that these ordinary men and women were also the result of divine conception, rather than from normal marital relations between Mary and Joseph.

(Matthew 13:54-56) And after coming into his home territory [Jesus] began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said: "Where did this man get this wisdom and these powerful works? 55 Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where, then, did this man get all these things?"

While some Catholics pretend that the terms "brothers" and "sisters" do not mean literal siblings, the plain meaning of this Scripture is actually acknowledged by Catholic authorities.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967, Vol. IX, p. 337) admits regarding the Greek words "adelphoi" ["brothers"] and "adelphai" ["sisters"], used at Matthew 13:55, 56, that these "have the meaning of full blood brother and sister in the Greek-speaking world of the Evangelist's time and would naturally be taken by his Greek reader in this sense. Toward the end of the 4th century (c. 380) Helvidius in a work now lost pressed this fact in order to attribute to Mary other children besides Jesus so as to make her a model for mothers of larger families. St. Jerome, motivated by the Church's traditional faith in Mary's perpetual virginity, wrote a tract against Helvidius (A.D. 383) in which he developed an explanation . . . that is still in vogue among Catholic scholars."


In addition, Bible students note that Jesus himself made a clear distinction between his literal brothers and sisters and his spiritual brothers and sisters:

(Mark 3:31-35) Now his mother and his brothers came, and, as they were standing on the outside, they sent in to [Jesus] to call him. 32 As it was, a crowd was sitting around him, so they said to him: "Look! Your mother and your brothers outside are seeking you." 33 But in reply he said to them: "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 34 And having looked about upon those sitting around him in a circle, he said: "See, my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother and sister and mother."


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20050908a/
http://watchtower.org/e/20031215/

Answer 9

Mary was his wife. They were married before the Christ child was born.

(Mary got pregnant, She married Joseph, they went to Bethlehem.)

Answer 10

There was a census conducted, and Joseph had to go back to his hometown, which was Bethlehem. Mary was his fiance, and decided to go with him. Mary was not kicked out.

Answer 11

Stop calling her Virgin Mary, because she got knocked up and gave birth to Jesus. She hasen't been a virgin for over 2000 years.