We know near to nothing of Joseph the older of Mary's other two biological sons, except that he was the older brother of James the younger of Mary's three biological sons, and is believed to be the son and namesake of his Father Joseph the son of Jacob, a descendant of Solomon, as distinct from Joseph the son of Heli, who is the biological father of Jesus and a descendant of Nathan the priest, who was a son of Uriah and Bathsheba the daughter of Ammiel the son of Obed-Edom a desendant of Moses the Levite through his second wife, who was Jephunneh the mother of Caleb and the daughter of Hobab, one of the two fathers in law of Moses.
If as suggested by Berachiach Ben Yisrael,that James the younger of the three sons of mary, who was the biological son of Alpheaus who is also called 'Cleophas,' which is an abbriveation of Cleopatros the masculine of Cleopatra, and Cleophas, who was also the father of Simeon who succeeded to the episcopal throne of the church of the circumcision after the death of James his half brother, who died at the hands of the same Saduccee sect that had Jame's full brother Jesus, murdered.
And as Cleophas was the husband of Mary at the time of the crucifiction, and there is no mention of the death of Joseph the step Father of Jesus, I tend to believe that the woman who was accused of having been caught in the very act of adultry by those Jewish authorities who were always searching for ways to trap Jesus with his own words and accuse him, was in fact, the mother of Jesus who had married Cleophas while her original husband Joseph, who it would seem had divorced Mary, was still alive thereby making her an adultress according to the new teaching of Jesus, that if a person remarried while their original spouce was still alive, they were then guilty of commiting adultry.
But back to the question in hand, if we were to believe that James the younger was the beloved disciple of his brother Jesus, then we're still stuck with the same problem, as it would appear that James, as with all the sons of the family of Mary and Cleophas, all lived up in Galilee, that is, apart from Joseph the brother of Jesus and James the younger, who could have been the Joseph from Arimathea, who laid the body of Jesus in his own family tomb which had never been used.
And it could be argued of course that John, who Jesus had surnamed 'Son of Thunder,' is one and the Same as John who was surnamed 'Mark,' which name means 'Hammer' and that Mary the mother of John who is surnamed Mark, whose brother or half brother is Joseph the Levite from Cyprus who was surnamed 'Barnabus,' is actually Mary the mother of Jesus, who, for the sake of her son Jesus, who told her to go and sin no more, stopped living with her legal husband 'Cleophas' and his sons. We know that Barnabus took his half sister Mary and John surnamed Mark, with him into the land of Pamphilia, and that the graves of Mary and John can still be visited in the town of Epheaus, to this very day.
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