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    12 others in the registry answer to the name Joseph. Every Joseph in the Bible

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    Joseph

    Ἰωσήφ

    Joseph was the husband of Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ.

    verses
    17
    first named
    Matthew 1:16
    last named
    John 6:42
    period
    the New Testament
    tribe
    Judah

    Description

    Who was Joseph?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Joseph was the husband of Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ. He was a descendant of David (Mat.1.16, 20; Luk.1.27; 2.4) and lived in Nazareth (Luk.2.4). Joseph was betrothed to Mary when she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit (Mat.1.18; Luk.1.27). Being a righteous man, he planned to divorce her quietly, but an angel appeared to him in a dream, telling him to take Mary as his wife and name the child Jesus (Mat.1.19-21, 24-25). Joseph obeyed and took care of Mary and Jesus. He was present at Jesus' birth in Bethlehem (Luk.2.4-7, 16) and later took his family to Egypt to escape Herod's persecution (Mat.2.13-15, 19-23). Joseph is last mentioned in the Gospels when Jesus was 12 years old, and the family visited Jerusalem for the Passover (Luk.2.41-51). He is referred to as Jesus' father (Luk.2.33, 48; 4.22; Jhn.1.45; 6.42) and was a carpenter by trade (Mat.13.55). Joseph is not mentioned during Jesus' adult ministry, suggesting he may have died before that time.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Joseph10 of 19 entities the graph connects to Joseph, in 2 groups: kinship 3, events 7. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.JesusFather of · 5 events · 1,160 versesMarySpouse of · 4 events · 20 versesJamesFather of · 11 versesKinshipIsrael2 events · 2,578 versesEgypt3 events · 649 versesGalilee1 event · 72 versesBethlehem1 event · 53 versesJudea2 events · 53 versesNazareth3 events · 30 versesDream1 event · 28 versesEventsJoseph

    The 10 best-attested of 19 are drawn. All 19 are listed below.

    Child of

    Father of

    Sibling of

    • Alphaeusregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision

    Spouse of

    Took part in

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Joseph happensAll 4 places the claims about Joseph reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Egypt, Judea. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Joseph there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.BethlehemNazarethEgyptJudea
    the New TestamentAll 4 places the claims about Joseph reach

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 17, across 3 books.

    1. Matthew8 verses

      1:161:181:191:201:242:132:1913:55

    2. Luke7 verses

      1:272:42:162:332:433:234:22

    3. John2 verses

      1:456:42

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Heli and MarySalomeWitness of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrectionvia Heli and Marywife of HeliThe unnamed grandmother of Jesus.via Alphaeus and MaryJosesBrother of James "the Less" and son of the "other" Maryvia Shepherds’ finding of Mary, Joseph, and BabyFindingFinding is a concept gathering 116 labelled instances in the text.via Joseph’s namingNamingNaming is a concept gathering 91 labelled instances in the text.via JacobUnnamed#9Ancestor of Joseph, the husband of Mary.via Alphaeus and JesusMaryWife of Cleopas (or 'Alphaeus'), present at Jesus' crucifixion.via Everyone and Joseph’s goingBethlehemCity of David's birth and Jesus' birth.via Everyone and Joseph’s goingGoingGoing is a concept gathering 321 labelled instances in the text.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on