How Mary Raised Jesus and His 4 Brothers Alone: The Years Nobody Talks About

She was a widow in her forties. Joseph was gone. She was raising five boys alone in a small stone house in Nazareth — and one of them was the Son of God. The Gospels name them. Matthew 13:55. The villagers of Nazareth shouted it at Jesus when he came back to preach in his hometown synagogue: «Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?» Four brothers. Plus Jesus. Five sons under one roof. For most of their lives, the four younger brothers did not understand who their oldest brother was. Then one of them — James — became the bishop of Jerusalem and was thrown from the wall of the Temple in 62 AD for the name of his older brother. This is the story of those years. The eight pounds of flour Mary ground every morning. The workshop where Jesus taught his brothers to hold a chisel. The night they walked twenty miles to bring him home. And what happened to all five sons in the end. #Mary #MotherOfJesus #BrothersOfJesus #BibleHistory #Christianity