Not necessarily.
Posted on: November 1, 2016 at 16:50:01 CT
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The old explanation was that Joseph was an older man and had children from a previous marriage. Those sons would be counted as Jesus's brothers.
The later explanation is that the word translated as "brothers" just means male relatives of the same generation like cousins.
Either way, they don't have to be Mary's children.