Tue September 18, 2012 Did Jesus Have A Wife? Newly Discovered
Ancient Text Reignites Debate Originally published on Wed
September 19, 2012 8:30 am An ancient piece of text is reviving
an equally ancient debate: Was Jesus Christ married? Of course,
most Christians believe that he wasn't. But today, Harvard
Professor of Divinity Karen King presented a scrap of papyrus
that dates back to the fourth century. She told a gathering of
scholars in Rome that written in Coptic was this surprising
sentence: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...' " "Christian
tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though
no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim,"
King said in a press release. "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. From the very beginning, Christians disagreed about
whether it was better not to marry, but it was over a century
after Jesus' death before they bega