NAZARETH — Recently unveiled manuscripts which seem to be a commentary on the Gospel of Luke revealed that Joseph the carpenter was in for a huge shock on the night of his wedding to a hometown girl named Mary.
According to the commentary, written in Koine Greek, the relationship between the two had been "a little odd" after Mary turned out to be pregnant with the Son of God before her marriage to Joseph. The oddness hit a new high, however, after Mary informed her new husband of her call to perpetual virginity on their wedding night.
"Wait…hold on a second!" Joseph exclaimed, according to the extra-biblical account of the couple's wedding night. "You're going to be a perpetual WHAT again? But what about…er, you know…our nuptial night? Mary? Talk to me here — maybe you could chat with Gabriel and see if this whole perpetual virginity thing is 100% necessary?"
While the portion of the commentary that records Mary's answer seems to have been lost, scholars agree that the text recording Joseph's reaction was preserved properly.
"You've got to feel for the guy," said Marcus LeBlanc, a papyrologist specializing in Koine manuscripts. "The shock and surprise that he must have felt comes through very, very clearly in the grammar of the texts…poor man must have felt pretty let down after that response."
At publishing time, scholars had confirmed that after the conversation with Mary, Joseph went out and wept bitterly.
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