Scientists Confirm: Jesus Was Married

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The question of the marital status of Jesus Christ has always aroused the keen interest of scientists and heated discussions among church representatives. And now a heated debate may reignite. Recently, scientists from the three largest universities in the United States confirmed that the ancient papyrus, which contains a mention of the wife of Christ, is not a fake.

For the first time, a document written in Coptic (spoken by Egyptian Christians) was presented to the public in 2012. The origin of the sensational papyrus and the name of its owner were not disclosed.

“If the 2nd century is the correct date for this essay to be written, then the fragment directly proves that claims about the marital status of Jesus first appeared a century after his death in the context of Christian controversy about sexuality, marriage and following the teachings of Christ,” a professor at Harvard School noted earlier theology by Karen King.

The papyrus contains the following entries: "Jesus said to them: my wife" and "As for me, I will be with her so that." Analysis of papyrus, ink, handwriting and peculiarities of the Coptic language of the time shows that the inscription was made between the 2nd and 4th centuries. AD

According to scientists, this document is the only ancient text that has come down to us, from which it is clear that Jesus spoke about his wife. At the same time, the researchers note that there is no evidence in the test that Jesus as a historical person was married, since the fragment has a later date of writing.

The Vatican did not recognize the document, and after the publication of the text, representatives of the Catholic Church declared that the ancient document was a "fake" and was illiterately assembled from the phrases of the Gospels. The text does contain spelling errors, the researchers note, but this rather suggests that its author had only primary education.