Jason Helopoulos

Jesus is in Nazareth in his hometown.

As he says in his hometown, it is a prophet in his hometown is without honor, right?

And he is there and his family has gathered around him.

And then we read this in verse 3 of Mark chapter 6.

Is not this the carpenter?

the son of Mary, and brother of James.

So here you have a James that is brother of Jesus.

Now look at the rest of this.

And Joses, and Judas, and Simon.

And as we said, Judas can often be translated as Jude.

And so here you have a man that is the brother of James, and his name is Jude.

James, of course, was a very important person

member of the early church, a leader in the early church that had quite a bit of authority in the early church, and men would have known who this is.

But that raises the question, right?

Well, why doesn't he say he's the brother of Jesus?

That would make sense.

You're the brother of Jesus, why not say it?

Well, you notice when James writes his book, he doesn't do that either.

He doesn't call himself the brother of Jesus.

Why?