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Was Jesus Married?

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(Be warned - this is a long article.) This is a heated subject for many.  Yehoshua ha'Mashiach (Jesus the Christ) has been traditionally viewed as chaste and single, but conspiracy theories circulate that He was married and/or had children.  The typical candidate for Jesus' alleged wife is Mary Magdalene.  Some view such claims as blasphemous and heretical. Some within the "married Jesus" crowd claim that Jesus faked His death, and other such nonsense.  Considering the facts I cover in Has Jesus' Burial Shroud Been Found? and The Empty Tomb (and Other Evidence for Jesus’ Death & Resurrection) , we can dismiss such theories.  Ignoring such anti-Christian nonsense, let's just focus on the idea that Yeshua was married. From Wikipedia: History of the hypothesis The 13th-century Cistercian monk and chronicler Peter of Vaux de Cernay claimed it was part of Catharist belief that the earthly Jesus Christ had a relationship with Mary Magdalene, descri...