What did Jesus’ neighbors say regarding his paternity?

Matthew: They said, “Is not this the carpenter’s [Joseph’s] son?” (xiii, 55.)

Luke: “They said, Is not this Joseph’s son?” (iv, 22.)

John: “They said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph?” (vi, 42.)

The Rev. Dr. Crapsey, of the Episcopal church, in his work on “Religion and Politics” (p. 289), makes this significant admission regarding the divine origin of Jesus: “The fact of his miraculous birth was unknown to himself, unknown to his mother, and unknown to the whole Christian community of the first generations.”

Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, wrote: “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter” (Jefferson Works, vol. iv, p. 365, Randolph’s ed.).