Originally Posted by Seeweed
Uh, she had several children after Jesus, with Joseph being their father. She is no longer a virgin, sorry .
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The New Testament speaks of two men called James who were close followers of the Lord. One is James the Greater, the son of Zebedee (see Matt. 4:21, 10:2, 26:37, Mark 1:19-20, 3:17, 10:35, Luke 5:10, John 21:2).
This James and his brother, John, were nicknamed Boanerges by Jesus; the nickname means "sons of thunder."
The second James, known as the Less because of his short stature, was the son of Mary, the wife of Cleophas (a man whose name is also rendered as Clopas and Alphaeus).
He is the one mentioned in Matthew 13:55 (see also Matt. 10:3, Mark 3:18, Luke 6:15, Acts 1:13). The problem for those who insist that James the Less was Jesus' literal brother is that both of these Jameses are identified as sons of other men and women, not sons of Mary and Joseph.
Some biblical concordances give the impression that there were three different men named James in the New Testament: James, son of Zebedee; James, son of Cleophas; and James, the "brother of the Lord."
This distinction is not accurate because the James who is called the "brother of the Lord" in Matthew 13:55 is identified in Matthew 27:56 as the son of Mary, the wife of Cleophas.
If the Father would be so flip about the Mother of his Son, I doubt he
would have need for the Holy Spirit and virginal birth. The Father did
honor the request of an adolescent Mary when she prayed saying, I
wish to serve you only and I wish to never know man.