Was Mary Magdalene married to to Our Lord?

Question

Would really like to know...

Answer 1

Yes...she was the wife of Jesus...she was NOT a whore like many religions have taught. It is rumored that she is the one sitting next to Jesus in the painting "The Last Supper".

Answer 2

This is one of those questions it is fun to be flippant about, so please understand it is not you. My problem with this affair is that, as a long-time follower of Occult Conspiracy Theories I had to decide for myself whether to accept this one over 20 years ago -- and my decision was to say "I like Henry Lincoln's Dr. Whos better than I do his Holy Blood Holy Grail" even though I'd just read one of the novelizations of his scripts.

I like books of all kinds and rather enjoyed a New York Times Op-Ed piece published a few years back (before the movie) whose author -- properly, I thought -- placed the Da Vinci Code in a tradition of books with what we today might call unethical origins. This was a distinguished list, including Robinson Crusoe. The Da Vinci Code should be read as fiction.

I can, as a New Englander of roughly Mr. Brown's generation (I'm eleven years older) make an "accusation" very few people seem to appreciate. Among the models he uses (intentionally or not) are a long tradition of Anti-Catholic rhetorical tracts and propaganda of the sort that scholars call "Nativist". Ironically (and I'm living in New Hampshire) one of the local transmitters of this Nativist rhetoric (which I got full force and uncensored from my grandparents) is the Manchester Union Leader which is very respectful of the Catholic Church as many of the executives are themselves Catholic. I don't believe Mr. Brown was consciously attacking the Church but I do think the reason he chose to go with this material had a lot to do with some of the political discussion which has dominated 20th Century New England.

Both Henry Lincoln (et. al, he had two collaborators) and Dan Brown intended nothing more than to provoke. These are actually cynical books. Lincoln wove together some legends which had been around before including the marriage of Jesus, but he explicitly disclaimed belief in them. I've been frankly disappointed by the amount of ink spilled and trees murdered by otherwise intelligent writers like Sandra Marschalk over it.

The bottom line -- and this is from someone who's read the Nag Hammadi Library and Plotinius in translation -- is we can't know. On the one hand, yes respectable men in Jesus's day were married. On the other hand the way he handled the accusation he feasted with publicans and sinners ("Who needs me more than publicans and sinners?") showed that as long as he wasn't hurting people he didn't CARE about being respectable. That his wife would have been Mary Magdelene shows equal parts sexism and ignorance of the intellectual traditions of the Roman Empire of the time. She was very clearly a very intelligent spiritual follower of his. That she was also a woman did cause controversy. That you can accuse the Church of slandering her because of it shows what the Church itself calls Our Fallen State.

If it's important enough that she was married to Jesus, rest assured you will know in time, but it is really worth asking whether it is important enough?

I think not, frankly.

Answer 3

Jesus was not married so I do not know who your lord is. Jesus was not married to anyone. Mary of Magda was a close friend because Jesus cast 7 demons out of her. The 7 demons merely meant her soul and mind were completely consumed by demons.

Answer 4

The Bible never makes any specific claim as to the relationship of Mary Magdalene to Jesus other than she was one of his disciples.

Answer 5

Yes I believe Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. According to the Bible it is a sin to have sex before marriage. This is what cause's me to believe that they were married. Interesting I would say and I'm not sure we will ever have a true answer to your guestion.

Answer 6

There is no historical or Biblical evidence to support this idea, which was born in Hollywood.

Mary and Martha were the sisters of Lazarus who was raised from the dead. Traditionally it is said that Mary was a prostitute who reformed after she met Jesus. She is identified as the woman who washed His feet with her tears and dried them with her hair (though there are no names given in that passage.)

Mary, Martha and Lazarus were close friends with Jesus and always fed and housed Him when He was in the area.

Answer 7

according to some reg lion's they say yes and there was a blood line of children in starting France and a blood line to this day each person has there be lives some say no the Muslim i think say the black male who took the cross since god could do any thing changed spirits with him -gnostic say other wise but that he did Merrie her -so i think depends on each person what they believe every one has different path's

Answer 8

Accorging to the lost sea scrolls yes... personally, why does it matter? Most Jewish men his age were married too...

Answer 9

There is absolutely no evidence to show this.

Jesus didn't come here to have fun, nor to have kids and get married. He came here for one reason that was prophesied over 300 time in the old test.
Jesus came here to die on the cross for our sins. The Crucifixion was prophesied hundreds of years before it was even invented by the Romans! You want a list of these prophecies then e-mail me I have it.

God bless,
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Answer 10

Yes, she was married to Jesus. The bible actually mentions her in the texts although not directly indicating she was his wife, but associated her with a typical wife role to Jesus. Bachelorhood was very rare for Jewish males of Jesus' time and it would have been unthinkable for an adult, unmarried Jew to travel about teaching as a rabbi.