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Was Jesus Married?
In the news this week there was a quote from a professor of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School about that maybe Jesus had a wife. It was announced Tuesday that the tiny scrap of papyrus contains dialogue that includes the words "Jesus said to them, 'My wife.." from a around 400 AD. So did Jesus have a wife? There is nothing in the 5-6 thousand manuscripts, from where we get the text for the New Testament that would give any evidence of such. The fragment in question is very small about the size of a business card. It is dated about 300 years after the first century when Jesus lived and the apostles and prophets who wrote the New Testament. There are other people that used the name "Jesus" in the early centuries, (and even today) So it could be another Jesus. Also the bible does speak about the bride of Christ. " Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." Rev.21:9. So the problem is, we have a small fragment of papyrus that uses a phrase, but we don't have the whole document nor the context nor the flow of what is being said.. Yet people are ready to jump to all kinds of conclusions that are based on lots of assumptions. Then overlook the many manuscripts that we do have that gives us the complete document and context, which we call the New Testament. The wise man said, "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." Prov.18:13. We would do well to look at all the New Testament first, that was written in the first century, base our faith on what it teaches not something that was written 300 years later, which there is only a small portion of that document that even remains.
