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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?_r=1
Now, does it matter to Christians if Jesus was married? Will it hurt, help or not matter at all to the Christian faith?
To me it does not matter. He was a man after all. He may have even had children...it still doesnt change his teachings.
A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: Jesus said to them, My wife ...
The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, she will be able to be my disciple.
The finding was made public in Rome on Tuesday at the International Congress of Coptic Studies by Karen L. King, a historian who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nations oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.
Now, does it matter to Christians if Jesus was married? Will it hurt, help or not matter at all to the Christian faith?
To me it does not matter. He was a man after all. He may have even had children...it still doesnt change his teachings.