Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: chappell@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Glenn Chappell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Descendents Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 04:31:29 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Lines: 15 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article burt@sequent.uucp ([Burton Keeble]) writes: >Jesus had many relatives on his mother's side. Why wouldn't >they have had even greater reason to feel proud of their blood relationship >to him, and to pass that information down through the generations? I've read that Jesus's family was prominent in the Jerusalem church for quite a while (can't remember where I read this....) Perhaps the tradition wasn't passed down to the present day because His family died out? That isn't too unlikely considering that the Roman Empire was very much into killing Christians back in the early days. GGC <>< [Certainly one gets the impression from Acts and Gal. that James, the brother of Jesus, was active in the Jerusalem church. --clh]