Matthew 1:25 Firstborn

In Matthew 1:25 we read of the birth of the Saviour Jesus who would save His people from their sins. Here it’s recorded that Joseph, the husband of the virgin Mary “knew her not till she had brought forth her FIRSTBORN son: and he called his name JESUS.”

Mary was a virgin when Jesus was born.

Mary had at least 7 other children after Jesus.

Matthew 13:55-56 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us?

Some denominatinos teach that Mary was perpetually a virgin which disagrees with the Firstborn of others doctrine.

Firstborn is found in the Majority of all remaining Greek manuscripts and many uncial copies (capital letters) including C, D, E, K, L, M, S, U, V, W, Gamma, Delta, Pi, Sigma and Omega.

Reformation Bibles:

Wycliffe

Tyndale

Coverdale

Matthew's

Great

Geneva

Bishops

Douay Rheims

King James

FOREIGN LANGUAGE BIBLES:

Chinese Union Traditional bible

French Martin

French Ostervald

French Louis Second

Luther's German Bible

German Schlachter

Italian Diodati

Dutch Staten Vertaling Bible

Spanish Sagradas Escrituras

Spanish Reina Valera

Reina Valera Gómez

Portuguese Almeida Corregida

Portuguese A Biblia Sagrada

Polish Updated Gdansk Bible

Hungarian Karoli Bible

Russian Synodal Version

Czech BKR Bible

Smith and Van Dyke Arabic Bible

Modern Greek N.T.

Modern Hebrew Bible

Early church Lectionaries:

Old Latin copies of aur, d, f, ff1, g2, q

Anglo-Saxon gospels by Aelfric

Vulgate

Syriac Peshitta

Harkelian

Armenian

Slavonic and ancient Ethiopic versions

Early church witnesses:

Diatessaron

Cyril of Jerusalem

Didymus

Epiphanius

Chrysostom

Proclus

Jerome and Augustine

“The Firstborn” is omitted from Sinaiticus and Vaticanus and a few others.

Dr. Steven A. Hite