Family Trees and Pedigrees
Aside from the Genealogies of Jesus present in the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of Matthew, there have been several attempts to piece together a detailed family tree of Jesus' immediate nuclear family:
The below diagram is by John J. Rousseau and Rami Arav (Augsberg Fortress 1995 edited; see "From Jesus to Christ: Jesus' Family Tree") It follows a traditional Protestant interpretation that Mary and Joseph had marital relations after the birth of Jesus, and that the brothers and sisters mentioned are those born in the at least 12 years that Joseph lived after Jesus' birth, prior to Mary's presumed widowhood at the time of the crucifixion. Although there is no mention of other children in the caravan with Mary and Joseph in the Luke 2 account of the journey to the temple when Jesus was 12.
__________________________________________ | | | | Mary=Joseph Cleopas=Mary | | |______________________________________ | | | | | | | Simeon | | | | | | d. 106 Jesus James Joses Simon Sister Sister Jude d.62 | | Menahem Jude ____|____ | | | Elzasus James Zoker | ? Nascien | Bishop Judah Kyriakos fl.c.148-149.Read more about this topic: Brothers Of Jesus
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