كم كان عمر يوسف عندما وُلد يسوع؟ ربما 20، وربما 80

The Bible never tells us how old Joseph was when Jesus was born. Matthew and Luke name him, trace his family to King David and tell us what he did, but neither gives his age. The numbers come later: Orthodox tradition remembers a widower of about eighty, and a Jewish saying on marriage age would make him perhaps twenty. What Matthew gives us instead is a man who gets up in the night. After the angel speaks to him in…