Joseph was the father of Jesus, since Early Christian belief Jesus is the Son of God and through the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary was begotten.

Joseph came from the sex of King David, which according to the testimony of the Old Testament, the Messiah will emerge. He lived as a carpenter in Nazareth and was betrothed to Mary, Mother of Jesus - according to later tradition as an old, 80-year old man when he learned that Mary was pregnant, he doubted their loyalty and wanted to separate themselves from it, but an angel told him in a vision that Mary "by the Holy Spirit" was pregnant, and Joseph stayed with her (Matthew 1, 18-21). Because one of the Roman census, he had arranged with the pregnant Mary to travel to Bethlehem where Jesus was born (Gospel of Luke 2, 1-7). Then they fled to Egypt to escape of the murder of the children of his reign Herod (Matthew 2, 13-15), after his death in the year 4 AD, they were able to return after Nazareth (Matthew 2, 19-23). The last time Joseph is mentioned in the Gospels, when he and the twelve-year-old Maria Jesus in the Temple discussed with the scribes witnessed (Gospel of Luke 2, 41 - 51).....