What proof exists that Jesus might have been married?
In those days, it was almost unheard of for a Jewish man of 32, the age Jesus is thought to be at the time of the crucifixion, to be unmarried. Aside from some marginal sects, there was no premium on celibacy at that time so there is no reason to think that Jesus would have remained without a wife. Assuming he took one, Mary Magdalene is the likely candidate. She is the woman in the Bible to whom Jesus was closest. Was Mary Magdalene really a prostitute? It was probably Pope Gregory the Great who did poor Mary Magdalene the greatest disservice. By the late Sixth century – and with a largely illiterate population – he decided that, with so many women called Mary, it over-complicated the Bible. In one account, there are three different women named Mary. Gregory decided that Mary Magdalene must be the same person as a prostitute named Mary who was described a few paragraphs earlier. In the 1960s, the Vatican adjusted the record and admitted this had been an error and that Mary Magdalene w
