Who were the parents of Joseph and Mary of the New Testament?
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Joseph was the son of Jacob. Mary was the daughter of Heli. Mary was of the tribe of Judah and a descendant of David. Hence it could be said of her son Jesus that he "sprang from the seed of David according to the flesh." (Ro 1:3) Through his adoptive father Joseph, a descendant of David, Jesus had a legal right to David's throne, and through his mother, as the offspring,seed,and root of David, he held the natural hereditary right to "the throne of David his father.' See Mt 1:1-16; Lu 1:32; Ac 13:22, 23; 2Ti 2:8; Re 5:5; 22:16. If tradition is correct, Heli's wife, the mother of Mary, was Anna, whose sister had a daughter named Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptizer. This tradition would make Elizabeth the cousin of Mary. That Mary was related to Elizabeth, who was "from the daughters of Aaron" of the tribe of Levi, the Scriptures themselves state. (Lu 1:5, 36) Mary's sister, some have thought, was Salome, the wife of Zebedee, whose two sons, James and John, were numbered among Jesus' apostles. See Mt 27:55, 56; Mr 15:40; 16:1; Joh 19:25.
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