They didn’t celebrate Mother’s Day in first-century Nazareth. But pretend for a moment that they did. How many Mother’s Day cards would Mary have gotten? That’s not an easy question to answer, because we don’t know how many children Mary had. There’s an old tradition that Mary was a lifelong virgin and only ever had one child, Jesus. But not everybody accepts the idea that Mary was a perpetual virgin. This is a church tradition that doesn’t go back to the first century. What does the Bible tell us? What Mark Tells Us The gospel of Mark mentions several siblings …