serious question here, genuinly curious?

Question

did jesus have any brothers or sisters? i mean, you cant expect two married people not to get busy now and then so even though jesus himself was an imaculate conception, surely mary and joseph must have had another one or two down the line? because to think that they had no sex or did anything to produce any other children is just odd to me. they were married so its not like they were doing anything wrong.

i never said they got pregnant every time they had sex. im just saying that there wasnt really any way of stopping it back then. im not ignorent...

Answer 1

That Jesus had siblings is clearly indicated in the Gospels. Luke’s Gospel refers to Jesus as Mary’s “firstborn,” implying that she later bore other children. (Luke 2:7) Mark’s Gospel reports that some in the city of Nazareth equated Jesus with his siblings, regarding him as nothing special. They asked: “Aren’t James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon his brothers? Don’t his sisters still live here in our town?”—Mark 6:3, Contemporary English Version; Matthew 12:46; John 7:5.
Despite what the Gospels say, many theologians maintain that Jesus was an only child. Some suggest that the brothers and sisters in question were actually Jesus’ cousins. Others speculate that these siblings were Mary’s stepchildren. But consider: If Jesus were Mary’s only child, would those Nazarenes have said what they did? On the contrary, some of them likely witnessed Mary’s pregnancies with their own eyes. They knew firsthand that Jesus was one of many children born to Mary