did jesus marry?

Answer 1

well considering that he was Jewish and in his thirties, probably, but then again maybe he didnt. can we ever know for sure? of course not. and please dont start quoting the bible to me -- its not exactly all that reliable. the important part is the message and symbolism of Jesus, why should anyone care or be offended at the thought that Jesus married?

Answer 2

Of course. This has been the big secret hidden by the Catholic Church and others all these years.

Why do you think that his life was so mysteriously blank in the Bible from his youth to his 30's. Hmmm. Could it be that he was married and had a wife and kids? Could it be that he was a deadbeat dad who went off to sew his religious oats by wandering around the country? Could it be that Mary Magdelene was that wife?

If you don't support the idea that he was married, then you may want to consider the idea that Jesus was gay. Just a hypothesis that needs to be seriously considered.

Answer 3

No. Your getting into that fictional account of the Da Vinci Code.

Hollywood intends to re-write history but one only needs to research for themselves the validity of the claims. For example the quality of the New Testament documents can be validated outside of the Bible through the research of Josephus Flavius, Tacitus, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Herodotus, and Thucydides. In fact there are 5366 documents discovered so far to validate that the Bible we have today is 99.5% as accurate as it was way back then. For example:

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus referred to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ.” (The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus, Book XX, sec. 200) A direct and very favorable reference to Jesus, found in Book XVIII, sections 63, 64, has been challenged by some who claim that it must have been either added later or embellished by Christians; but it is acknowledged that the vocabulary and the style are basically those of Josephus, and the passage is found in all available manuscripts.

Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived during the latter part of the first century C.E., wrote: “Christus [Latin for “Christ”], from whom the name [Christian] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”—The Complete Works of Tacitus (New York, 1942), “The Annals,” Book 15, par. 44.

With reference to early non-Christian historical references to Jesus, The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”—(1976), Macropædia, Vol. 10, p. 145.

Internal evidence is pretty clear as well. 2 Peter 3:15-16 clearly states that the canon was already in the process of being collected for what we have today in the Bible. There were gnostic books but they were not accepted because they were written by Hellenistic writers that intended to change the original message of the Greek translation to imply that Jesus was not the Son of God.

See the sources below for addition research.

Source(s):

"Exploring the Da Vinci Code"
"Breaking the Da Vinci Code"
"Is the New Testament Documents Reliable?"
"The Gospel Code"
"Hidden Gospels - How the Search for Jesus Lost the Way"

Last this is a personal favorite of mine...

"New Evidence that Demands a Verdict"

go to any book store and pick them up.

Answer 4

Even if Jesus was married, he didn't do anything wrong. Marriage was not forbidden to him. He lived as a man. But trying to prove that he was married or not married, that too 2000 years after his death, is nothing but just foolishness. Married or unmarried, Jesus carries the same value spiritually.

Answer 5

Believing Mary Magdalene was his wife or concubine is a denial of everything about the mission of the Messiah and hence the Christ because that is what Jesus believed about himself. If you take the perspective that Jesus was born of a Virgin and was so because he was the son of God (and not the Genetic son of Joseph) his Divinity comes in part from the fact that the sin nature of Adam was passed on to the Son and the Daughter, Not through Mary Jesus mother (Who at that time was a Virgin).
(We are not punished for our Fathers sins that was atoned for , we are punished for exercising our sin nature) If Jesus had a partner and then had Children, his Children would also be divine and without sin. His role was to come and die (according to the Old Testament) and take our sins upon him and then be ressurected, not for him to take a wife and family. It’s hard to say you're a Christian if you do not believe in the Virgin Birth, Death and Resurrection.

Answer 6

Instead of the frantic raving on either side of this debate - you could try reading the gnostic texts and apocrypha and then you would have more information at your hands to make a decision on.

In truth it seems likely Jesus had some form of relationship with Mary Magdalene - but the Da Vinci code hypothesis is probably not correct.

Answer 7

I don't believe so. In the Bible and the Apocrypha book, don't tell anything about Jesus marriage. Is supposed his father (Joseph) died when he was young, so he took care of his mother and brothers, and because of his religious life, he didn't have time to marry. Marriage is an institution support in The Bible; and by Jesus itself, in no place in the Bible say that you cant married. If Jesus didn't married was because he didn't have time because of his religious work.

Answer 8

My Lord and My God Jesus did not marry. This is what the Holy Bible teaches everyone of us and the followers of Christ mostly known as Christians. This is what I believe. The creator of visible and invisible things in this universe from beginning to end. Our minds are worried with such simple matters of this life. Yes it is natural because we belong to this world now. When the Almighty God will show you his way you will walk in the right path according to his plan. May the Almighty God the creator complete his creation to the good.

Answer 9

Oh yes Jesus (Joshu) was married..and lived in community.
He was a very high density star child and came to promote the golden rule....love others as you love yourself.
He married Mary, and had 5 to 6 children mainly girls, and lived in a faithist community with his disciples. In fact he was like a chief Rabbi, and the Oahspe has a portrait painted of him sent from the angels in heaven in 1844
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/oahspe/images/ajoshu.jpg

Answer 10

Christ's bride is the Church. He did not marry Mary Magdalene. I don't know why some people choose to take a book written as fiction and believe it to be fact. Dan Brown even said it was fiction.