Professor of Ancient History Paul Maier on "Was Jesus Married?"

“If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I would have to weigh this evidence against the total absence of such information in either Scripture or the early church traditions. But there is no such spark-not a scintilla of evidence-anywhere in historical sources. Even where one might expect to find such claims in the bizarre, second-century, apocryphal gospels...there is no reference that Jesus ever got married.”1

Courage and Godspeed,

Chad

Footnote:

1. As quoted by Charlie Campbell here.

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