Jude, brother of Jesus

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Jude (alternatively Judas or Judah; Greek: Ἰούδας) is one of the brothers of Jesus (

Eastern Orthodox Christians believe this Jude is the same person as Jude the Apostle; Catholics hold that Jude was a cousin, but not literally a brother of Jesus, while the Eastern Orthodox hold that Jude is St. Joseph’s son from a previous marriage.[5]

New Testament

See also: James, brother of Jesus

Protestants, including R. V. Tasker[6] and D. Hill,[7] generally relate these brothers and sisters to the Matthew 1:25 indication that Joseph "did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son" and the implication that Joseph and Mary had customary marital relations thereafter. But K. Beyer points out that Greek ἕως οὗ ('until') after a negative "often has no implication at all about what happened after the limit of the 'until' was reached".[8]

Many Christians (

Mary, but step-brothers or cousins, which is part of the doctrine of perpetual virginity of Mary
.

Attribution of Jude

The Epistle of Jude has been attributed to him, on the basis of the heading "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James" (Jude 1:1) where "brother of James" is taken as brother of James the brother of Jesus.

Clement of Alexandria who lived c. 150–215 AD wrote in his work "Comments on the Epistle of Jude" that Jude, the Epistle of Jude's author was a son of Joseph and a brother of the Lord (without specifying whether he is a son of Joseph by a previous marriage or of Joseph and Mary)

Jude, who wrote the Catholic Epistle, the brother of the sons of Joseph, and very religious, while knowing the near relationship of the Lord, yet did not say that he himself was His brother. But what said he? "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ,"—of Him as Lord; but "the brother of James." For this is true; he was His brother, (the son) of Joseph.[9]

According to the surviving fragments of the work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord of the

Thaddeus
:

Mary the wife of Cleophas or Alphaeus, who was the mother of James the bishop and apostle, and of Simon and Thaddeus, and of one Joseph...(Fragment X)[10]

The bishop of Salamis, Epiphanius, wrote in his work The Panarion (AD 374–375) that Joseph became the father of James and his three brothers (Joses, Simeon, Judah) and two sisters (a Salome and a Mary) or (a Salome and an Anna)[11] with James being the elder sibling. James and his siblings were not children of Mary but were Joseph's children from a previous marriage. After Joseph's first wife died, many years later when he was eighty, "he took Mary (mother of Jesus)".[12][13]

Alternative attribution

Both "Judas" and "Jude" are English translations of the Greek name Ἰούδας, which was a very common name in the 1st century. Over the years the identity of Jude has been questioned, and confusion remains among biblical scholars. It is not clear if Jude, the brother of Jesus, is also Jude, the brother of James, or

Mary mother of James the less and Jude
.

There is an

Apostle Thomas,[citation needed] also known as Jude Thomas or Judas Didymus Thomas, as he is known in the Acts of Thomas[17] and Gospel of Thomas (Thomas means 'twin' in Aramaic
, as does Didymus in Greek.)

Descendants

Eusebius relates in his Historia Ecclesiae
(Book III, ch. 19–20):

But when this same Domitian had commanded that the descendants of

David should be slain, an ancient tradition says that some of the heretics brought accusation against the descendants of Jude (said to have been a brother of the Saviour according to the flesh), on the ground that they were of the lineage of David and were related to Christ himself. Hegesippus
relates these facts in the following words.

"Of the family of the Lord there were still living the grandchildren of Jude, who is said to have been the Lord's brother according to the flesh.
"Information was given that they belonged to the family of David, and they were brought to the Emperor Domitian by the
denarii
, half of which belonged to each of them;
and this property did not consist of silver, but of a piece of land which contained only thirty-nine acres, and from which they raised their taxes and supported themselves by their own labor."

Then they showed their hands, exhibiting the hardness of their bodies and the callousness produced upon their hands by continuous toil as evidence of their own labor. And when they were asked concerning Christ and his kingdom, of what sort it was and where and when it was to appear, they answered that it was not a temporal nor an earthly kingdom, but a heavenly and angelic one, which would appear at the end of the world, when he should come in glory to judge the quick and the dead, and to give unto every one according to his works. Upon hearing this, Domitian did not pass judgment against them, but, despising them as of no account, he let them go, and by a decree put a stop to the persecution of the Church.

But when they were released they ruled the churches because they were witnesses and were also relatives of the Lord. And peace being established, they lived until the time of Trajan. These things are related by Hegesippus.[18]

Eusebius also relates (in Book III, ch. 32,5f.), that they suffered martyrdom under the Emperor Trajan.

Bar Kokhba's revolt
.

See also

References

  1. ^ Greek New Testament, Matthew 13:55 Archived 2016-12-15 at the Wayback Machine: "οὐχ οὖτός ἐστιν ὁ τοῦ τέκτονος υἱός; οὐχ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ λέγεται μαριὰμ καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ ἰάκωβος καὶ ἰωσὴφ καὶ σίμων καὶ ἰούδας;"
  2. ^ Mark 6:3
  3. ^ Thomas Patrick Halton, On Illustrious Men, Volume 100 of Fathers of the Church: a new translation, CUA Press, 1999 p. 11
  4. ^ See Richard Bauckham Archived 2023-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, Jerome Archived 2023-10-03 at the Wayback Machine and the Early Church Fathers Archived 2017-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Bechtel, F. (1907). "The Brethren of the Lord". The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Archived from the original on 2000-02-29. Retrieved 2006-09-17.
  6. ^ Tasker, R. V., The Gospel according to Saint Matthew (InterVarsity Press 1961), p. 36
  7. ^ Hill D., The Gospel of Matthew, p80 (1972) Marshall, Morgan and Scott:London
  8. ISBN 978-0-385-49447-2
    ), p. 132
  9. ^ of Alexandria, Clement. Comments on the Epistle of Jude. www.newadvent.org. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  10. ^ of Hierapolis, Papias. Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord. Fragment X. earlychristianwritings.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  11. ISBN 978-0-8132-2591-3. Retrieved 22 September 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  12. ISBN 9789004098985
    . Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  13. ISBN 9789004228412
    . Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  14. ^ John 14:22
  15. ^ Commentary on John 14:22, Expositor's Bible Commentary CDROM, Zondervan, 1978
  16. ^ Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel According to Saint John volume 2, Anchor Bible p. 641
  17. ISBN 9781087965710
    .
  18. ^ of Caesarea, Eusebius. CHURCH FATHERS: Church History, Book III (Eusebius). Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

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