Evening: Psalm 34; Matthew 1:18-25
Joseph is Jesus’s father ... Biological paternity is not fatherhood. While Joseph knows he did not father Mary’s child, he is persuaded that God has special plans for the child. Joseph accepts that he will be the child’s father. History has focused on Mary’s virginity. However, in Isaiah’s prophecy, the Hebrew word ‘almah’ is used and it means, simply, a ‘young woman’ will conceive and bear a son. That’s what matters. Joseph accepts that Jesus will be better served by having a real human father to nurture his growth to adulthood than by worries about how Mary got pregnant.
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