耶稣出生时约瑟多大?也许20岁,也许80岁



  • 圣经从未说明耶稣出生时约瑟的年龄;马太福音和路加福音告诉了我们他的所作所为,但从未提及他的年龄。
  • 关于约瑟年老的形象源于公元二世纪的《雅各福音书》,他在书中对祭司说:“我有孩子,我是一个老人,而她是一个年轻的女孩。”
  • 东正教在其圣徒传记中保留了这种年长约瑟的形象:一个有孩子的鳏夫,被选为玛利亚的监护人时大约八十岁,去世时大约一百岁。
  • 耶柔米没有给出约瑟的年龄,并主张他终身守贞,天主教教理问答也没有给出年龄;随着天主教改革后对约瑟的敬礼在西班牙传播,至少有一尊雕像将他描绘成一位年轻的父亲。
  • 如果约瑟按照公元200年左右的一句犹太谚语“十八岁入洞房”结婚,他可能处于十几岁末或二十岁出头,比十几岁的玛利亚大几岁。
  • 我们最后一次见到约瑟是在耶稣十二岁时(路加福音2:41-51),传统认为他在耶稣大约三十岁开始传道之前就去世了。

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…

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