CAIRO - A newly-revealed centuries-old papyrus challenges the
belief among Christians that Jesus was not married, a discovery
that is likely to raise a fierce debate in the Christian world
about his marriage. "Christian tradition has long held that
Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical
evidence exists to support that claim," Karen King, Hollis
Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, said in a conference call with reporters cited by
Reuters. A scrap of an ancient papyrus written in ancient
Egyptian Coptic reads that Jesus said to them, my wife. The
scrap, which is smaller than a business card, also includes a
saying that she will be able to be my disciple. "This new gospel
doesn't prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the
whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about
sexuality and marriage," King said. The Harvard professor said
that the papyrus will fuel debate about whether Jesus was
married or not. The earliest reliable