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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Was Jesus aware of his death?
What is the prevailing philosophical background in the first century?
Could Jesus be homosexual?
Was Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem?
Religious keys to 1st century Judaism that help us understand Jesus
Sociopolitical keys of Judea in the first century
What was the office of Jesus?
Was Jesus a Jewish Nationalist?
Was Jesus a bigamist?
What aspects of Christianity appear in previous pagan traditions?
What do we know about the lost years of Jesus?
Was the Virgin a myth that came from older cultures?
What do we know about the Virgin Mary?
Where does the story of the Magi come from?
What is the origin of Christmas?
What do we really know about the figure of Judas and his suicide?
Did Jesus have brothers?
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
What can we know about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus?
Was Mary Magdalene really at the Last Supper?
Was the character deified by the first Christians by reinterpreting existing scriptures?
What were the main currents of early Christianity?
Was Jesus a notable rabbi?
What can we know about the resurrection of Jesus?
What remarkable contribution do the apocryphal gospels make about the life of Jesus?
Could there be in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas part of the message of a more authentic Jesus?
Why didn't his disciples write about Jesus?
What is the reason why the figure of Jesus has endured in time?
Was Jesus a Christian or did he claim to found any religion?
