Reply #53: actually he was probably married [View All]

[daveskilt]

The account of him being in the temple at age 12 would have been his barmitzvah which at that time among his sect included betrothal to a future spouse in an arrangemed marriage.

He begins his ministry at age 30 which is the time when he could first have become a rabbi - in fact he is called rabbi many times, at that time he could not have been a rabbi without being married.

He calls out lazarus daughter when she is in mourning. women at that time were required to stay in mourning until their husband or family patriarch called them from the home.

The responsibility to provide wine at a wedding resided solely with the bridegroom - when his mother asked him where the wine was at cana it would have been highly inappropriate if he were not the bridegroom.

He is annointed with oil prior to burial by mary and martha. This ritual was only permissable by either the wife of the deceased or his trusted male companions. If Jesus were not married - peter james and john would have done this.

Josephus hints that one of the reasons he was persecuted was his belief in polygamy (josephus says marriage like david and solomon)

It is a pretty safe bet that he was married, but along with a lot of other things was taken out of the collection of writings that became the bible through many translations and transcriptions over the centuries. (like all the references to female prophets that started to dissappear in Paul's time and really got ripped out in the time of Elizabeth the first when the idea of female religious power became pretty noxious to a male pope threatened by the first protestant church in England now headed by - a woman)

Now there is far less credible evidence that at least one of his apostles was gay ...possible but not so likely