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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Brethren of the Lord
		As married women are not distinguished by the addition of their father's name, Mary of Clopas must be the wife of Clopas, and not his daughter, as has been maintained.
		James and Joseph, or Joses, are, as we have seen, the sons of Alpheus, or Clopas, and of Mary, the sister of Mary the Mother of Jesus, and all agree that if these are not brothers of the Saviour, the others are not.
		Mary of Clopas is indeed called the "sister" of the Blessed Virgin (John 19:25), but it is uncertain whether "sister" here means a true sister or a sister-in-law.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02767a.htm (1961 words)

	Cleophas - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
		This name, Clopas, is thought by many to be the Greek transliteration of an Aramaic Alphaeus.
		This view is based on the identification of Mary, the mother of James etc. (Mark, xv, 40) with Mary, the wife of Clopas, and the consequent identity of Alphaeus, father of James (Mark, iii, 18), with Clopas.
		If the two persons are distinct, then we know nothing of Clopas beyond the fact recorded in St. John; if, on the contrary, they are identified, Clopas' personality is or may be closely connected with the history of the brethren of the Lord and of James the Less.
	www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Kleopas.html?print (471 words)

	Glossary
		Mary the wife of Clopas may thus be recognized as the wife of Alphaeus, and it is possible to suppose that Alphaeus and Clopas are the same person.
		Efforts to connect Clopas, and therefore Alphaeus and his sons, with the family of Jesus, are based on the inference that only three women are named in John 19:25 (cf.
		Clopas; kjv: ‘Cleophas’), husband of one of the Marys present at Jesus’ crucifixion (John 19:25).
	www.bibletexts.com /glossary/clopas.htm (1233 words)

	Cleophas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Clopas" or "Clophas" is mentioned in Gospel of John xix, 25, where a Mary present at the Crucifixion is called Maria he tou Klopa.
		The Roman Catholic Church recognizes a Saint Mary of Cleophas or Clopas; thus the question of whether or not this Mary, mother of a James, is a phantom duplication of Mary the mother of James the brother of Jesus, may not be asked by good Catholics.
		In The Jesus Dynasty, biblical historian James Tabor postulates that Clopas was the brother of Joseph, Jesus's adoptive father, and the second husband of Mary, Jesus's mother.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleophas (874 words)

	Brethren of the Lord - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		They were the children of Alpheus, otherwise known as Clopas (John 19:25), and the sister of Mary.
		The identity of Clopas and Alpheus cannot be established, resting, as it does, upon obscure philological resemblances of the Aramaic form of the two names (see ALPHAEUS).
		Nor is the identity of "Mary the wife of Clopas" with the sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus, established beyond a doubt.
	studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T1692 (1734 words)

	"The Relatives of Jesus" by Richard Bauckham
		If 'Mary of Clopas' was Clopas's wife, then she was in fact Jesus' mother's husband's brother's wife - a relationship which, not surprisingly, the evangelist has preferred to state less precisely as: 'his mother's sister'.
		This Greek name is not the same as the Semitic name Clopas, but it was common for Palestinian Jews at this period to be known by both a Semitic name and a Greek name which sounded similar.
		Simeon the son of Clopas was leader of the Jerusalem church - and doubtless the most important figure in Jewish Christianity - for at least 40 years, until his martyrdom in the reign of Trajan (either between 99.and 103 CE or between 108 and 117 CE).
	www.biblicalstudies.org.uk /article_relatives_bauckham.html (4854 words)

	John 19:25
		In a recent conversation with a friend, I said: John 19:25 is translated in the NAB as, "Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
		Most translations say, "Mary wife of Clopas," but there's no real way of knowing whether it means wife of or daughter of or sister of, for that matter.
		If it's the same Clopas as the Emmaus Cleopas, you'd think the passage would mention he was the beloved disciple, unless of course you take into consideration different source material.
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/greek-1/msg00017.html (357 words)

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		The variation in the spelling of Clopas was due to confusion with a man by the name of Cleopas (Luke 24:18).
		Clopas came from Hebrew where a soft p is pronounced as ph, which became f in Spanish.
		Mary Clopas was married to Clopas, about whom nothing is known in scripture.
	www.biblenews1.com /history2/20021025.htm (1973 words)

	The Brethren of the Lord
		Once this identity is conceded, the conclusion cannot well be avoided that Clopas and Alpheus are one person, even if the two names are quite distinct.
		The decisive proof, however, is that the father and mother of at least two of these "brethren" are known to us.
		But whether they were cousins on their father's or mother's side, whether cousins by blood or merely by marriage, cannot be determined with certainty.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/brethren_of_the_lord.html (1904 words)

	People's New Testament - James, Introduction
		(2.) That Mary, the wife of Clopas (John 19:25) was sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
		In answer to this theory it may be said that (1.) it is improbable that the wife of Clopas was sister to Mary, a fact which would require two sisters to be of the same name.
		The sister was no doubt Salome, the mother of John, named as one of the four women in the other gospels, and whom John omits to name from the same motives which prevented him from ever naming himself.
	bible.christiansunite.com /pnt.cgi?2000 (921 words)

	NPNF2-01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine \| Christian ...
		Lightfoot, on account of the fact that Symeon was the son of Clopas, wishes to put the martyrdom earlier in Trajan’s reign, and it is probable that it occurred earlier rather than later; more cannot be said.
		This is certainly a reasonable supposition, and the unanimous election of Symeon as successor of James at a time when there must have been many living who had seen the Lord, confirms the conclusion.
		Mary, the wife of Clopas, is mentioned in John xix.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.viii.xxxii.html (1546 words)

	Saint James the Less - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the son of a Mary (whom Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and others maintain must not be confused with Mary, the mother of Jesus) commonly believed to be either the Virgin Mary's sister or sister-in-law.
		James, son of Clopas is the same as James, son of Alphaeus.
		Clopas is the Greek form of the Aramaic transliteration Alphaeus which is het-lamed-peh-yod.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_James_the_Less (556 words)

	NPNF2-01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine \| Christian ...
		If, then, Alphæus and Clopas be the same, as many claim, James the Little is to be identified with James the son of Alphæus, the apostle, and hence the latter was the brother of Symeon.
		For Hegesippus records that Clopas was a brother of Joseph.
		There is no objection to the conclusion that Clopas and Joseph were own brothers, although it cannot be proved from Hegesippus’ words that they were more than brothers-in-law.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.viii.xi.html (716 words)

	The Road to Emmaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elsewhere, a woman named Mary (often called "the other Mary" to distinguish her from Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene) is named as the wife of Clopas (John 19:25).
		Still elsewhere, this Mary is identified as the mother of the Apostle James the Less and Joses (Mark 15:40).
		So the most likely companion for Clopas on the Road to Emmaus would be his wife Mary, who had been a witness to the Crucifixion and to the empty tomb (Mark 16:1).
	www.worcesterdiocese.org /pastoral/icon-bkgrd.htm (603 words)

	SALOME
		Clopas became the head of Joseph's household after his death.
		Simeon, however, was the son of Clopas, the younger brother of Joseph who assumed the levirate position, as I said, after Joseph's death.
		Anastasius tells us that Mary, the sister of Jesus, married Clopas, her uncle (an accepted custom in ancient Israel) which clarifies the confusion of John 19:25, which identifies her as Mary's sister (sister-in-law).
	grailchurch.org /salome.htm (3016 words)

	Church History Lecture 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the course of it Symeon, son of Clopas, the second to be appointed Bishop of Jerusalem, as already stated, is known to have ended his life by martyrdom...
		Some of these [heretics] charged Simon son of Clopas with being a descendant of David and a Christian; as a result he suffered martyrdom at the age of 120, when Trajan was emperor and Atticus consular governor...
		And it would be reasonable to suggest that Symeon was an eyewitness and ear witness of the Lord, having regard to the length of his life and the reference in the gospel narrative to Mary, wife of the Clopas whose son he was, as explained in an earlier section.
	www.giveshare.org /churchhistory/churchhistorylectures/lecture07.html (3015 words)

	Concerning the Martyrdom of Symeon the Son Ot Clopas Bishop of Jersalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Some of these heretics, forsooth, laid an information against Symeon the son of Clopas, as being of the family of David, and a Christian.
		And it so happened, says the same writer, that, while inquiry was then being made for those belonging to the royal tribe of the Jews, the accusers themselves were convicted of belonging to it.
		With show of reason could it be said that Symeon was one of those who actually saw and heard the Lord, on the ground of his great age, and also because the Scripture of the Gospels makes mention of Mary the daughter of Clopas, who, as our narrative has shown already, was his father.
	www.ldsmedia.com /3757534 (197 words)

	Did Jesus have half-brothers and sisters? - at BibleStudy.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is unclear from Scripture whether the man whose name is Clopas or Cleophas and Alphaeus is the same man or not.
		The only scripture verse which includes all three of the Marys into one is the last one and this would indicate that Jesus's mother had a sister or sister in law named Mary whose husband was Cleophas/Clopas, but it does not say that she is the mother of James the Less.
		The Scripture does identify that Clopas' wife was also called Mary, but does not identify that these four men are his sons or that Salome is his daughter through that Mary the sister in law of Mary the mother of Jesus.
	www.biblestudy.org /question/jesusfam.html (2115 words)

	Brothers and sisters of Jesus
		Mary (the wife of Clopas), the mother of James (the younger), Joseph (Joses), and Salome.
		We know that the father of James the younger was Clopas, the husband of Mary of Clopas (Alphaeus) (Mk.3:18), making Mary of Clopas also the mother of Joseph (Joses).
		Jude also was a son of Clopas and the Virgin Mary’s sister, as Scripture speaks of him as a brother of James the younger: "James son of Alphaeus (Clopas), and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James" (Acts 1:13).
	biblia.com /encyclopedia/brothers.htm (2650 words)

	WHO WAS MARY MAGDALENE
		Seneca had mentioned a single Mary, surnamed Magdalene, but had to some extent merged her with the chorus of “daughters of Jerusalem”; it was John who added Mary of Clopas.
		Clopas is not mentioned anywhere else in the gospels, so that one would be left wondering who is “Mary of Clopas” (“Mary of Clopas”could mean the mother, the wife, or the daughter of Clopas).
		The clause “ Mary of Clopas and Mary Magdalene” was added because Christians, beginning with the age of the composition of the gospels, were interested in maintaining that Joseph was closely related to his wife Mary.
	www.metrum.org /gosen/whomagdalene.htm (3499 words)

	The Brethren of the Lord by J.B. Lightfoot
		The last-mentioned Mary is to be identified with the wife of Alphaeus and mother of James.
		In the course of his argument he confesses plainly that he does not know why Mary is called Clopae, (or Cleophae, as he writes it): it may be, he suggests, after her father or from her family surname ('gentilitate familiae') or for some other reason.
		On the other hand, if, admitting the second identification and supplying the ellipsis in ‘Mary of Clopas’ by ‘wife,’* we combine with it the statement of Hegesippus that Clopas** the father of Symeon was brother of Joseph, we get three cousins, James, Joses, and Symeon, on their fathers’ side.
	philologos.org /__eb-jbl/brethren.htm (11653 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: James, The Brother of Jesus
		Now Mary of Clopas given in John's gospel is to be identified with Mary, the mother of James the Less and Joses given in Mark's.
		Thus Mary of Clopas was the mother of James, brother of the Lord.
		Another necessary supposition is the identity of "Mary of Clopas" and "Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses".
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/jamesbrother.html (3738 words)

	Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Church History of Eusebius.: Chapter XXXII
		In this persecution we have understood that Symeon, the son of Clopas, who, as we have shown, was the second bishop of the church of Jerusalem,
		And after being tortured for many days he suffered martyrdom, and all, including even the proconsul, marveled that, at the age of one hundred and twenty years, he could endure so much.
		The word is evidently used here in its earlier sense of “witnesses,” referring to those who testified to Christ even if they did not seal their testimony with death.
	www.sacred-texts.com /chr/ecf/201/2010101.htm (1526 words)

	James - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		This James is generally identified with James the Little or the Less, the brother of Joses and son of Mary (Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40).
		In John 19:25 this Mary is called the wife of Cleophas (the King James Version) or Clopas (Revised Version), who is thus in turn identified with Alpheus.
		Some have applied the phrase "his mother's sister" in John 19:25 to Mary the wife of Clopas, instead of to a separate person, and have thus attempted to identify James the son of Alpheus with James the brother of our Lord.
	www.searchgodsword.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4825 (2563 words)

	Jesus Brothers and Mary's Perpetual Virginity -- Apolonio's Catholic Apologetics, Philosophy, Spirituality
		This mysterious “Mary” appears again; this time called “Mary the wife of Clopas.” If this passage is speaking about three women, rather than four (as it almost certainly is), the comma after “his mother’s sister” may be identifying Clopas’ wife as the sister (or ‘tribal-relative’) of Jesus’ mother.
		It is also quite possible that, as John’s gospel so often does, this reference to Mary as “wife of Clopas” is a conscious intention to clear up any questions about the “mother of James and Joseph (Jose)” in the Synoptics -- that is, to clearly distinguish her from Jesus’ mother.
		So, therefore, Mary the wife of Clopas may NOT be a relative at all NOR is she necessarily the same woman as “Mary the mother of James and Joseph/Jose” in the Synoptics.
	www.bringyou.to /apologetics/a27.htm (1659 words)

	Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States - Q&A
		James "the brother of the Lord" is therefore one with James the son of Alpheus, and consequently with James the Less, the identity of these two being generally conceded.
		As married women are not distinguished by the addition of their father's name, Mary of Clopas must have been the wife of Clopas, and not his daughter, as has been maintained.
		It is commonly admitted, that Clopas and Alpheus are merely different transcriptions of the same Aramaic word Halphai.
	suscopts.org /q&a/index.php?qid=745&catid=435 (821 words)

	Mary - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Mary, the wife of Clopas, is mentioned as being present at the cross with Mary the mother of Jesus, the latter's sister and Mary of Magdala (John 19:25).
		Since it can hardly be doubted that James, the apostle, and James the Less, the son of Mary, are one and the same person, the conclusion seems inevitable that Mary, the mother of James, is also the wife of Alpheus.
		This would make the apostle James the cousin of Jesus, and, by an extension of the idea, would identify James, the apostle, with James, the "Lord's brother." The available evidence is clearly against both these inferences (see Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3; Galatians 1:19).
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T5824 (6979 words)

	The Ever-Virginity of the Mother of God
		If this is so (and Hegisippus is generally acknowledged as fully reliable), then “Mary wife of Clopas” was the Virgin Mary’s “sister” in that she was her sister-in-law.
		Joseph’s brother, Clopas, also married a woman named Mary, who had the children James and Joseph (along with Judas and Simon, and daughters also).
		John 2:1ff) and just as naturally refers to this same woman as “His mother’s sister, Mary wife of Clopas.” But it is apparent that it is one and the same woman being referred to by all.
	www.goarch.org /en/ourfaith/articles/article9174.asp (2094 words)

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