42. Mary and Joseph

Mary and Joseph were married not long time ago. They both were very young. However, all their ancestor line had been checked generation upon generation getting further away throughout the humanity history. And the Joseph and Mary family was chosen personally by Gabriel out of the last three selected couples whose ancestry genes had been checked in the divine data registries. And you have distorted my life story to have taken away from me even my birth in the family of Mary and Joseph by claiming all the time that I was born out of the womb of a virgin. You do not know all the esteem to the family among the Jews that has been dominant during those far off times two thousand years ago and dominant now.   

How can you speak it out and call this as the word of God when you portray my birth beyond the family boundaries; and my birth within the nation that so highly elevates the family itself and the role of the mother and the father within it. It is the mother who is responsible for bringing up a boy till the age of five. And at the age of five, the up-bringing of a boy is taken over by the father. While the mother is engaged in the up-bringing of girls further on till they get married. And even a married daughter, until she gives birth to the first baby, is still considered to be a virgin. Only having given birth to a child she enters into a full-fledged womanhood. 

Therefore, until Mary gave birth to me, as I was her first child, she was not yet into her full status of the womanhood and was considered to be a “virgin“ even though while having her husband.

There are many more similar distortions in the scriptures you consider to be holy. But even in that Scripture you shall find the names of my other brothers, as well as a mention that I also had other sisters. Only do read this very scripture you call as holy attentively and you shall come to know more about my family, the Joseph and Mary family.

And it is painful to me to see the distortions being invented about me and our family that was a large one: the nine children Mary gave birth to, my younger sisters and brothers that I had also to raise after my father, Joseph, unexpectedly was killed in an accident on construction site. Then I turned into the sole upholder of my mother in providing both the funds and a moral support.

And that made such an experience to me that no other child had throughout the planet. I was just fourteen at the time and I had to shoulder all the burden of providing food to all of us and bringing up the children. Being only fourteen years old I suddenly became the elder brother-father to all my junior brothers and sisters.

Those experiences were very hard and bitter for my young mind and soul; and for my body. Since my adolescence I had to give up the pleasures of the joyful adolescent period that dominated the boys of my age. I could not submit myself to these pleasures any more for I had to shoulder the burden that would be hardly possible to endure by a grown up man. At that time it seemed to me that I could break down and could not hold that heavy burden on my still immature shoulders. The more so that prior to that tragic outcome with Joseph I had been known as a very energetic, agile, and full of resounding laughter teenager boy. My agility and speculations had been the cause not only the anxiety of my parents but also of those whom I  had associated with. They had known me as a son of Joseph the carpenter and thus they had been looking upon me with a certain forgiving attitude for they honored my father, Joseph, very much who was a very industrious and sincere man.

My mother, Mary, was the wife who was very much devoted to him too and the mother who loved us, children, all very much. However, her character was not that stable as that of Joseph. The tranquility of Joseph and fluctuations of Mary also had an impact on building up my character. Prior to my father‘s death I had rather resembled my mother by my character. All scenes were filled up with my presence. And I had a sense that other boys of my age showed their tendency to obey to my influence. Therefore it seemed to me fairly natural that my junior brothers and sisters had to obey to me as well, the more so they were younger. Only having become the sole bread earner in the family did I realize what a responsibility was, then, pressing upon my shoulders.