The ages of mary and joseph at the time of jesus’s birth attracted a great deal of controversy in november 2017, after the republican alabama state auditor jim ziegler.

How old was mary when jesus was born. By the time of jesus’ public ministry, joseph seems to have passed from the scene. The bible doesn’t say how old joseph was when jesus was born to mary. When jesus was born, historians agree that mary was between the ages of 12 and 14 years old, at the most.as a young adolescent, mary responded affirmatively to a summons.

Historians place mary’s age in the range of 12 to 14 years old when jesus was born. The bible does not set an age for marriage that is a minimum and the only requirement of the women having reached the stage of puberty (ezekiel 16). In height, in looks, in manners, in tone of voice, in grace of utterance, god resembled.

Based on the lack of other mentions of him in the biblical. While the bible does not specifically state how old mary was when jesus was born, most christian historians speculate that she was around 15—16 years of age at the time of jesus’ birth. But according to the history of.

According to jewish customs at the time, a young woman might become. It is a dear tradition that jesus and mary were very nearly the same height. Both joseph and mary were in their teens.

Although mary is mentioned several times in the gospels, joseph is never mentioned after the. As a result, mary was between the ages of 11 and 14 years old when she was “bethroed” to joseph. Joseph's death is not recorded in the bible.

Bible readers have a lot of questions about the holy. All we know for certain is that mary was a virgin ( mt 1:23 ) ( lk 1:27 ) ( isa 7:14) and that she was. Mary was an adolescent, which in our culture today seems shockingly young to be a mother.