Joses, Brother of James The Younger
Joses brother of Jesus is usually distinguished from a second Joses mentioned in passing in three verses (Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40, 47) which mention among the women present at Jesus' crucifixion "Mary, the mother of James ("the Less" in Mark) and Joses".
There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. Mark 15:40 ESV
The text in Mark continues to say "Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where was laid." (15:47 ESV). In the New Testament, the name "James the Less" appears only in this verse in Mark 15:40, who, by parallel accounts of the women at the crucifixion is usually equated with "Mary the mother of James," and with Mary of Clopas, mentioned only in John 19:25. According to a tradition of Hegesippus (Eusebius III.11) this Clopas was a brother of Joseph making his wife Mary, Jesus' aunt and this James the younger and Jose to be Jesus' cousins.
Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses might be unlikely to be Mary the mother of Jesus, but James Tabor suggests that she is, in fact, Mary, the mother of Jesus and that Clopas was her second husband.
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