Amos (brother of Jesus)

124:5.2On Sun­day night, Jan­uary 9, A.D. 7, his baby brother, Amos, was born. Jude was not yet two years of age, and the baby sis­ter, Ruth, was yet to come; so it may be seen that Je­sus had a siz­able fam­ily of small chil­dren left to his watch­care when his fa­ther met his ac­ci­den­tal death the fol­low­ing year.

127:3.13On Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon, De­cem­ber 3, of this year, death for the sec­ond time struck at this Naz­a­reth fam­ily. Lit­tle Amos, their baby brother, died af­ter a week’s ill­ness with a high fever. Af­ter pass­ing through this time of sor­row with her first-born son as her only sup­port, Mary at last and in the fullest sense rec­og­nized Je­sus as the real head of the fam­ily; and he was truly a wor­thy head.

124:4.3From this time on he be­came more suc­cess­ful in get­ting along with his broth­ers and sis­ters. He was in­creas­ingly tact­ful, al­ways com­pas­sion­ate and con­sid­er­ate of their wel­fare and hap­pi­ness, and en­joyed good re­la­tions with them up to the be­gin­ning of his pub­lic min­istry. To be more ex­plicit: He got along with James, Miriam, and the two younger (as yet un­born) chil­dren, Amos and Ruth, most ex­cel­lently. He al­ways got along with Martha fairly well. What trou­ble he had at home largely arose out of fric­tion with Joseph and Jude, par­tic­u­larly the lat­ter.