5:17-19) as authoritatively taught by the Matthean Jesus, but with mercy as the preeminent principle of application. An angel tells Joseph in a dream that the pregnancy is through the agency of the ...

was dispersing the water which Jesus had collected…And He commanded that he shall wither like a tree. The parents of the boy carried him to Joseph bemoaning their lost child. (Infancy Gospel of Thomas ...

In the Gospel of St. Luke (1,31), and angel tells Mary to name her child Jesus, and in that of St. Matthew (1,21), an angel tells Joseph to name the child, Jesus. The Catechism of the Catholic ...