mary was jesus's mother but is it true that he married someone also named mary?

Question

i am not religious because to many people have been killed in the name of religion but i have heard this at some time i just cant remember when.

Answer 1

just a question about your first comment..so if you are not religious because people are killed over religion does that mean you are also not political because people are killed over political ideology and you are not affected by race or gender because people are killed over those things and you don't have any property because people are killed over their things ???

Anyway, to answer your question, No, Jesus did not marry anyone even if half the country wants to take the word of an author who hardly registered on literay map until he stole someone else's premise and used information even the the library he said the information was found at says is a scam.

Answer 2

The answer to this question depends on personal religious beliefs. Mainstream Christians would say no, Jesus was never married. But, there are documents that have been found such as the "Gospel of Mary" that might make it possible to believe otherwise (although a lot of the document is not readable).

It does make a person wonder though!

Answer 3

It is being rumoured that he married Mary Magdalene, but any record is not in the public domain, being probably amongst the apocrypha at the Vatican.

I think that the book 'The DaVinci Code' has some content, but of course the book is just a novel, in spite of so many people taking it seriously.

Answer 4

If he was a normal man, and a rabbi, he would have married, as rabbis had to marry ... the popular thing is that he married Mary Magdalen, but that has so many people upset because the church decided long ago that this same lady was a prostitude. But who knows ... I like the idea that Jesus married. Don't know if it's true ... but it's nice.

Answer 5

There is no historical evidence that Jesus married anyone. He spent his life spreading God's word. The 1st century Jewish historian Josephus, who mentions the Christian movement, does not record Jesus as being married. Modern day storyteller Dan Brown thought it would stir up some folks and sell a lot of books (Da Vinci Code) but it is just a tall tale.

Answer 6

That is not true. Dan Brown wrote a book called 'The DiVinci Code'. In this book the tells a story of Jesus marrying and having a daughter. This book is fiction.
The stupid thing is, in the very beginning of the book he starts the story by saying that everything you are about to read is true. Since this occurs after the title page, it is just part of the story.

Answer 7

This can be very confusing to people who don't have Christian backgrounds because throughout the four books of the Gospel both Mary, the mother of Christ (who lived many years past her son's crucifixion) and Mary Magdalene are mentioned simultaneously. They are two very distinctly different characters however and I will try to briefly outline them.

The mainstream consensus on Mary, the mother of Christ was that she was a teenaged Nazerene girl (probably fourteen-fifteen) who was bethrothed to a much older carpenter named Joseph. She was visited by the angel Gabriel who informed her that although she was a virgin, she would bear a divinely concieved child whom would be the long awaited messiah (A Jewish concept of a supreme prophet who would liberate and redeem their people) Joseph too was visited by Gabriel and continued through with the betrothal and raised Christ as his own son. They lived as a normal family, having further sons until Joseph died sometime in Christ's late adolencence/early adulthood. From that point Christ continued in his adoptive father's shoes as carpenter until he started his mission of teaching and prophecy when he turned thirty. At that point Mary and her other sons were intermittenly involved in Christ's mission (he travelled throughout the Roman provinces of Judea and Samaria preaching) and later became important leaders of the early Christian community in these same provinces after Christ's crucifixion. It is also commonly accepted that The Gospel of St. Luke, which was supposed to have been composed by a Greek physician who never knew Christ as a man walking the earth, was largely inspired by Mary's testimony about her son's preaching.

The mainstream consensus on Mary Magdalene is much like others here have said. She was a redeemed prostitute who Christ quite literally saved from a mob looking to stone her (kill by blugeoning her to death with rocks) who eagerly adopted his cause. Although modern Christianity does not afford her the title of an apostle (A group of twelve men resposible for the initial growth of the church, eleven of whom where Christ's leading disciples while he was on earth, ), Mary Magdalene could quite easily be called Christ's most devoted disciple. She was present for almost every major event of Christ's mission including his crucifixion and was in fact the first person he appeared to after his resurrection. She, like Christ's mother, was to go on and be a major leader in the Jewish church.

Now as to this debate you have waded into about Christ being married, well, it's a lot bigger than just the "Da Vinci Code". In the fourth century AD after the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine, Christianity became the official religion of the Empire and an effort was made by the emperor to unify the faith into one church. At the time Christians had been using different texts describing the lives of Christ and the apostles to guide their beliefs and this caused a lot of disagreements between fellow believers. Constantine therefore had the leaders congregate in a city called Nicea to confer and come up with a unified body of holy texts. What they agreed on was those books currently contained in the Bible were the purest representations of the word of God while the remaining texts where divided into books of merit which today are contained within a work called the Apochrapha (hope I spelled that right) and a group of texts that were considered inaccurate or misrepresentive. These were then eradicated from the church. It is among these later two groups of books, particularly the eradicated group of which our knowledge has been greatly expanded by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, that revisionists are finding "new" information that they create all sorts of new assumptions about Christ from.

Now I can't tell you if they are right or wrong. I'm no expert, but honestly it makes no difference to my faith. In my mind, sex and marriage is a positive human experience that I certainly never would have begrudged my savior. If he could find some comfort in Mary's arms good on him. If he didn't, well, that was his choice as well. I wouldn't second guess him. Either way I don't think it lessens his sacrifice for our sins or what he had to teach us.

Hope I helped and didn't confuse more.

Answer 8

There are arguments he did, there are arguments he didn't. Read the da-vinci code by dan brown. Then do some research on the things it mentions. Then make-up your own mind. But remember this. Whether something is true or not is irrelevant, what is BELIEVED becomes reality!

Answer 9

no. and the Da Vinci Code is probably where you heard that Jesus was married to Mary Magdelene. That is soooo false!

Answer 10

That's the theory of Dan Brown in he Da Vinci Code, who said Jesus married "Mary Madelaine "NOT TRUE.