12 others in the registry answer to the name Joseph. Every Joseph in the Bible
- verses
- 17
- first named
- Matthew 1:16
- last named
- John 6:42
- period
- the New Testament
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Joseph?
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.
The 10 best-attested of 17 are drawn. All 17 are listed below.
Child of
- JacobregistryMatthew 1:16
- HeliLuke 3:23
Descendant of
Father of
Partner of
- MaryregistryMatthew 1:16Matthew 1:19Matthew 1:20 +3
Sibling of
- Alphaeusregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
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.
The pattern
Where Joseph is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
17 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Matthew (8), Luke (7) and John (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 17, across 3 books.
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.
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.
- Matthew 2Joseph obeyed the dreams, taking the Child and His mother by night to Egypt and later bringing them to Israel, Galilee, and Nazareth.
- Matthew 13Joseph was named as the carpenter whose son astonished the people of Jesus’s hometown.
- Luke 1Joseph is named as Mary’s betrothed and as a man of David’s house.
- Luke 2Joseph travels from Nazareth to Bethlehem with Mary, registers there, and later searches Jerusalem for Jesus.
- Luke 3Joseph was regarded as Jesus’ father in the opening of the genealogy.
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