Were Joseph and Mary terrible parents? If the "brothers of Jesus" were Mary's biological children, that's where the argument leads. Former Protestant pastor Kenny Burchard grants the Protestant reading for the sake of argument and follows it through 18 biblical texts: six or seven children raised in the holiest home in Israel who don't believe in Jesus (John 7:5), siblings unnamed when Mary stands at the cross, and a dying Jesus entrusting his mother to John instead of a brother (John 19:25-27). Even Protestant commentators like Albert Barnes and Matthew Henry say Mary lived with John for the rest of her life, and not one records the brothers taking her home. So either Mary is the least successful mother in Scripture, or adelphos doesn't mean what our friends insist it means. Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli read it our way.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Were Joseph and Mary Terrible Parents? (A Question From a Former Protestant)
2:38 Granting the Protestant Reading: A Thought Experiment
9:43 Big Idea 1 — The Devout Home They Supposedly Grew Up In (Texts 1–7)
16:16 Big Idea 2 — The Brothers Who Did Not Believe (Texts 8–9)
19:37 A 100% Failure Rate? When the Family Thinks Jesus Is Out of His Mind
23:30 The Cross: Why Jesus Hands Mary to John, Not a Sibling
25:27 Kenny's Testimony: What Children Actually Do When a Parent Suffers
28:02 The Burial & the Tomb: Outsiders Care for the Body (Texts 12–13)
29:35 Acts 1:14 — The Brothers Finally Believe, So Why Not Take Mary In?
34:55 James and the Widows: "Where's Your Mom, James?" (Texts 16–18)
38:25 The Verdict: Terrible Parents, or the Wrong Reading of 'Adelphos'?
42:33 Closing Thoughts & Your Comments************
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