According to the Gospel of Matthew, Joseph is not the biological father of Jesus. Some people claim that then God is the assumed father.
This claim is not as far-fetched as it looks like because eventually God is the Heavenly Father, the father of all mankind. Nonetheless, stating that God would have been Jesus’ real but divine Father, it is of course BS, which means Bold Speculation.
Because Jesus must have had a biological father.
Also, Jesus must not have been born out of wedlock. The Gospel says that at the time of his birth Mary and Joseph were not married but only betrothed to each other, which is an euphemism to say that Mary had been widowed already or was still married to Jesus biological father, though soon widowed.
Being born out of wedlock could have resulted in an official bastard or mamzer status, thus Jesus would not have been respected by any means by anybody in any Jewish neighborhood.
Thus at the time of his birth or at least at his conception his biological father and his mother must have been married, and the legal husband, the father of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew, was not Joseph and neither God.
The great question was always that if not Joseph, then who had the honor to have taken the virginity of the for a while (temple) virgin Mary.
We should tend to agree with Robert Graves and his forks that the most likely candidate of being the real father of Jesus should have been a person who was vehemently and personally persecuted by Herod the Murderer.
We should not call this usurper king Great, because he was a psychopath, though he was definitely not alone with that among his blood-thirsty contemporaries.
According to Emperor Augustus, the most frequent targets of Herod, the Roman client-king, were the members of the former Jewish Royal House, the Hasmoneans, and the members of his own household, especially his own sons.
He made three of them executed. All of them were either married or born to Hasmonean princesses, at a time.
In the Gospel given timeframe like minus two years before the death of Herod the Sonkiller in 4 BCE, Herod arrested his heir, the crown prince, Antipater II. After a show trial and getting the permission of the Emperor, he got him executed by the bribed Roman authorities.
Josephus states that Antipater had a new wife at that time, a not named high ranking Hasmonean princess, the daughter or possibly the granddaughter of Antigonus II Mattathias, the last Hasmonean king who served as High Priest as well. If they had a kid already or on its way, this kid was really a royal one.
The heir of Antipater, thus the heir of Herod, and on the mother side the heir of the Hasmoneans, especially of Antigonos the Hasmonean who became a king with the support of the Parthians in 37 BCE. BINGO.
This kid was a principal target of Herod, of course.
Herod the Murderer was also really eager to kill the full Hasmonean membership of the clan, though some lower ranking priesthood possibly survived the clan cleansing, and these priests might have rescued the Hasmonean widow, possible with the kid, or the pregnant widow with the kid in her belly and hid them.
Thus was arranged for hiding purposes, that Mary, the Hasmonean Princess, pregnant, secretly became later the wife of Joseph, who according to the Gospel did not touch her, of course, until the boy was born or rather till the execution of Antipater II.
Otherwise, they were childless, and very likely that Joseph died after a while, almost soon and because Jesus was not his son, Joseph’s brother, Alpheus, obeying the law of Moses regarding the levirate marriage, took the widow- again-Mary as his wife.
Three times married, two times widowed, once upon a time virgin, that is Mary.
She lost her (temple) virgin status as a mother of course, but it was a blessing for her kids, boys and girls.
VERSUS PAUL 