Could Jesus Christ be married? Professor Antonio Piñero answers this question based on the Scriptures. In reality, Jesus could have been married but he could also be celibate or widowed. One of the ideals of the Jews in the 1st century was the prophet Jeremiah who was single, however, other prophets were married. We cannot know what the marital status of Jesus was. What does seem from the Gospel narrative is that, if Jesus was a widower or married, the years in which he dedicated himself to preaching the coming of the Kingdom of God was not accompanied by his wife. This is evident in Chapter 19 of Matthew in a famous phrase of Jesus in which he says that there are people who dispense with marriage for the love of the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, all three hypotheses could be true. Jesus could be married, widowed, or celibate.
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What remarkable contribution do the apocryphal gospels make about the life of Jesus?
Was Jesus married?
Sociopolitical keys of Judea in the first century
What image did Jesus have of himself?
What do we know about the Virgin Mary?
Was Jesus a healer?
What is the origin of Christmas?
What can we know about the resurrection of Jesus?
Could there be in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas part of the message of a more authentic Jesus?
What do we really know about the figure of Judas and his suicide?
