Week Seven

Joseph is a bit of a mystery man in the Bible, but what a sweetheart! We only know a few facts about him. We know that he was a carpenter by trade and that as Matthew 1 opens, he was betrothed to Mary. We know that he was alive when Jesus was twelve when their family went to Jerusalem for Passover. We can surmise that he probably died some time before the crucifixion of Christ because Jesus entrusted his mother to the apostle John at the cross. The only other information we have about Joseph is found in Matthew 1. Just what was it about Joseph that caused him, of all the men in the world, to be the man that our heavenly Father selected to be the surrogate father to His son?