MARY PUZZLED; JOSEPH CONFUSED ! (Edn 2 revised 4)

Break off quietly ….?  Really? Divorce? What? Why?

Joseph the Carpenter seems to have been a decent man and a kindly one. He faced these troubling questions. But, of course, that is not the beginning...

Below is the core story, as we have it.

Joseph, Mary & Jesus; Bethlehem, etc

We find Jesus' birth and infancy firmly connected to Bethlehem in Judea

Mary & Joseph; Nazareth c.7BC

Just before the current era, we meet a remarkable woman, or lass, in ancient Nazareth.