“Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?”
I’m going to answer this as if it reads “earthly brothers and sisters”. In other words, literal
siblings, children from the womb of the same mother. We all know of situations in which the words “brothers” and “sisters”
are used figuratively in everyday language, particularly in a religious context.
In this case we will not bother talking at length about New Testament figurative
uses of “brother” or “sister”, as the answer is obvious enough to make this a
very short post indeed.
So let’s get the metaphorical usage out of the way quickly.