A question about marriage?

Question

Who performed the first ever Christian marriage and when was it? I'm not religious but I did wonder. Also, did Joseph and Mary ever get married?

Answer 1

Miss Mogsy - I feel that I must apologize for the poor quality of answers you are receiving.

First, nobody knows who was the first christian married couple. Some other answerers speculate that it was probably very Jewish and taking place in Israel. These are probably pretty safe assumptions.

Second, yes Mary and Joseph were married. The Bible tells us that Joseph was going to quietly divorce Mary when he found out that she was pregnant - but an angel told him that it was God's child in her womb.

Third, Mary and Joseph never had children together. Joseph was an older widow who had children from a previous marriage. Mary, who was a consecrated virgin, was placed in his protection precisely because he was older and already had grown children. Being a consecrated virgin, Mary would never have a 'husband' to take care of her. Fundamentalists will try to quote verses from the Bible to 'prove' that Mary and Joseph had children together, but these claims do not stand-up to scrutiny. Suffice it to say that every christian, including Martin Luther and the other 'reformers' for the first 1600 years of christianity believed that Mary remained a virgin for her entire life. Challenge these people to produce one piece of christian literature from antiquity that states otherwise.

Fourth, christianity was started by Jesus in the first century. Constantine, who lived in the fourth century, converted from pagan to christian shortly before his death.

Answer 2

Joseph and Mary did get married and had more children!

As for who performed the first Christian marriage - What do you mean by Christian marriage - people have been getting married for thousands of years! Jesus went to a marriage in Cana but I'm not sure He performed the ceremony!

Answer 3

i would wager that the first Christian marriage ceremony was primarily Jewish and would have taken place in Jerusalem (that is where Christianity really took its first roots). I don't think it is important to know who exactly was married, who performed it, or how it was performed, since marriage ceremonies are cultural and can change from place to place. I would like to think that it was a small, humble ceremony...just for the irony of the supposed magnitude of the event.

Yeah, Joseph and Mary got married. In fact, two of their sons wrote Epistles found in the New Testament: James (also called James the Just) and Jude.

fun fact: James and Jude have always been considered half brothers, since they don't share the same Father as Christ.



and can i just say that Constantine wasn't alive in the year 100? The Counsel of Nicea did not take place until the year 350AD when the New Testament was already circulating and accepted as cannonical. *sigh* Dan Brown...

Answer 4

I suppose that would be Adam and Eve joined together by God Himself.

Yes, Mary and Joseph did get married. Fact is the traditions were slightly different than ours back then. Being engaged back then was the equivalent of being married, but they had not concemated the marriage. Because the Bible says Joseph sought to quietly divorce her. Techncially they were not married with full benefits. But they had already made the commitment to be married.

Answer 5

Well, to your first answer, I think many people look to Adam and Eve as the first marriage, with God residing over it. Joseph and Mary got married while Mary was pregnant, I believe.

Oh, yeah, and Joseph and Mary had other children, too.

Answer 6

I do not know about Christian, but I know who performed the first marriage.
The union of a man and a woman as husband and wife according to the standard set out by God. Marriage is a divine institution, authorized and established by Jehovah in Eden. Marriage brings into being the family unit, the family circle. Its basic purpose was the reproducing of the members of the human family, to bring into existence more creatures of the human kind. Jehovah the Creator made male and female and ordained marriage as the proper arrangement for the multiplication of the human race. (Ge 1:27, 28) The first human wedding was performed by Jehovah, as described at Genesis 2:22-24.

Yes they were married, according to Jewish tradition.

Matthew 1:24 Then Joseph woke up from his sleep and did as the angel of Jehovah had directed him, and he took his wife home.

Answer 7

first christian marriage is unknown, probably at the time of the apostles around A.D. 35 maybe. Mary and Joseph got married for sure, they were ingaged when God made Mary, a virgin, concieve Jesus supernaturally, Joseph was told by an angel that Jesus was going to be born and not to be afraid to wed Mary.

Answer 8

the first ever christian marriage no one and i mean no one will ever answer that unless you got a time machine and did joseph marry mary well if he did it would have been a jewish wedding because christianity was not started until about 100 ad by constantine

Answer 9

Adam and Eve had a union ordained by God and yes Joseph and Mary did marry..

Answer 10

Yes... Ceremony and culture were different, but they lived together and had children.

Different places and cultures have had different traditions about marriage, the "Christian ceremony" probably developed over the first few centuries, based in part on Jewish culture.