Shawn Ryan

No, he seemed to have come into the scene because of his relationship with Mary.

He was going to marry Mary.

They were engaged, and they had kind of a ritualistic thing back then where you have a period of kind of engagement, your betrothed, they would say.

Yes.

Probably so, probably so.

And Joseph comes from the line of David, which is important because the prophecy was that the Messiah would come from the line of David.

And Mary, of course, was a wonderful young woman.

And he traditionally...

your betrothed gets pregnant, not from you, you're a divorcer.

Yeah, a divorce.

I mean, you'd walk away.

He doesn't do that.

He's reassured by an angel that, no, this is okay.

This is the Holy Spirit's doing.

And he stays with her.

And so he apparently was, like her, a great person of God that God trusted to be the conduit through whom the Son of God would enter into humankind.

Yeah, Bethlehem's important because it is the town of David.

And there was a census that was taking place.

And here's another thing that just came out in recent years.

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