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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LKS007" data-source="post: 23451778" data-attributes="member: 106442">2. Was Jesus married?      Few questions arouse more controversy than speculation about Jesus'  marital status, a subject famously broached in Dan Brown's novel "The Da  Vinci Code" (Doubleday, 2003). Some biblical scholars have argued that  Jesus may have been married to Mary Magdalene, a woman frequently  mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible.      "In the 'Gospel of Philip' (found in the Gnostic codices at Nag  Hammadi), these words are clearly readable, in spite of the holes in the  manuscript: 'There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary his  mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his  companion,'" wrote Barbara Thiering on <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Movies/The-Da-Vinci-Code/Scholarly-Smackdown-Were-Mary-Magdalene-And-Jesus-Married.aspx?p=1" target="_blank">Beliefnet.com</a>.      A recently discovered scrap of papyrus has lent some credibility to those who claim Jesus was married. Known as the "<a href="https://www.livescience.com/44748-gospel-of-jesus-wife-authentic.html" target="_blank">Gospel of Jesus' Wife</a>,"  the document was unveiled in 2012 and contains lines such as, "Jesus  said to them, 'My wife...'" Forensic analyses have suggested that the  document is probably authentic and not a recent forgery, though the jury  is still out on that.</blockquote>

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