Joseph - husband of Mary

Bible verses

  • Matthew 1
  • Matthew 2
  • Luke 1:27
  • Luke 2

Characteristics

  • humbly willing to put Mary away privately rather than subject her to public ridicule and possible execution by stoning
  • God spoke to him through dreams
  • believed angels when they spoke to him without questioning them
  • obeyed God whenever an angel told him what to do
  • easy to read over his virtues because he always did “what he should do”
  • seems to have been a faithful, honorable, loving, humble man