Jesus Wife Mentioned In Old Scrap Of Papyrus
Does Ancient Document Prove Jesus Was Married?
Did Jesus have a wife? An ancient document that is 1600 years old and just recently translated says that Jesus refers to having a wife, according to a report from CBS News.
This bit of information is challenging what Christians have long believed about Jesus, that he was a single and celebate man. It could also influence the standing of women in the Roman Catholic Church, which has long dictated that only men could be priests, and following in Jesus’ example, remain celebate and unmarried.
The document was in the hands of a private collector and translated by Harvard University’s Dr. Karen King, who after examining it with other colleagues, says that the document is an authentic one.
“If the second century date of composition is correct, the fragment does provide direct evidence that claims about Jesus’ marital status first arose over a century after the death of Jesus in the context of intra-Christian controversies over sexuality, marriage, and discipleship,” King wrote in the paper with colleague AnneMarie Luijendijk, a professor of religion at Princeton University.
“If it is what it purports to be, then it’s the first of its kind to show up,” said Bart Ehrman, a religious-studies expert and author at the University of North Carolina.
“We certainly didn’t have anything like that before.”
Ehrman notes that the reference in the text to Jesus’ wife doesn’t mean he actually had a wife.
“This shows there was a follower in the second century who may have thought Jesus was married,” said Ehrman.
The paper is papyrus and the language a dialect of Coptic, with only eight lines appearing on the business-card size document.
Other scholars are not convinced that the document is authentic and further testing of its paper and ink is being scheduled.
Speaking to the Huffington Post, a noted Coptic linguist said these types of texts contain “crazy things.”
Wolf-Peter Funk, co-director of the francophone project editing the Nag Hammadi Coptic library at Laval University in Quebec, said there were “thousands of scraps of papyrus where you find crazy things,” and that many questions remain unanswered about the Harvard fragment.
Jesus Wife Mentioned In Old Scrap Of Papyrus
Jesus Wife Mentioned In Old Scrap Of Papyrus
Jesus Wife Mentioned In Old Scrap Of Papyrus
Jesus Wife Mentioned In Old Scrap Of Papyrus
we know about everyone else in scripture who had a wife, and we know about Jesus’ platonic female friends…why would scripture not tell us if Jesus had a wife if indeed he did? The bible is the most analyzed and scrutenized book in history…all of the smartest, most critical minds have tried for centuries to pick holes into? it…we have more historically verified evidence for biblical documents than for any other ancient text …and now! WOW, now we have a piece of papyrus.
he anointed christians 144,000 are the bridegooms mention in revelation 7:4,-8,14:1;
Revelation 21:2…. I saw also the holy city, New Jerusalem. coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband
Isa 61:10 Without fail I shall exult in God . My soul will be joyful in My God. For he has clothed me with his garments of salvation.: with the sleeves coat of rightouness he has enwrappped me., like the bridegoom who, in a priestly way, puts on a headdress, and like the bride who decks herself with her ornamental things.
Isa 62:5…For just as a young man takes ownwership of a virgin as his wife , your sons will take ownership of you as a wife. And with the exultion of a bridegroom over a bride your God will exult even over you.
John 3:29
Revelation 18:23
“”One cannot overrule that it might be him saying ‘my wife as a church,’”
Do scientists really discuss Jesus as a planner of the church and Christianity?
Wouldn’t it portray Jesus as an arrogant person? How could he ever known that he’d become ‘the son of God’ ? Isn’t Christianity supposed to have ‘happened’ spontaneously after Jesus’s Resurrection?
And let’s not forget that if the Romans wouldn’t crucify him, I think Christianity would have never happened…
Sorry, I mean no offence
I think this papyrus is a fake. Another attack on Christians. There were many men called Jesus and the writings would say “son of…” after the name but this papyrus one doesn`t. also, there is nowhere in the New Testament that these expressions are found.
Why don`t they publish how today`s Christians are being crucified and hung on trees, naked, by Muslums in Arab countries. If it were reversed there would be a huge uproar and more violence than ever. We Christians have learned how to turn the other cheek, and to love and forgive our enemies, whereas Muslums are taught by their god to hate and destoy the enemy–quite a difference.
For 2000 years there has been an emphasis built by the Roman Church that Jesus did not have a wife. Not so much to condemn a natural relationship, but to avoid the reality that Jesus descendants had a greater claim to his history than the power hungry proponents of the religion. It is impossible to accept the fact that Jesus was not pressured into procreation to continue the house of David. As part of the Essene community it was his duty to continue the family line legitimately – and he did.