I was watching the Smithsonian Channel today and this was one of the topics. As the scholars and priests debated the authenticity of it, I began to wonder, what does the validity of this finding prove towards the authenticity of The Bible or if Jesus was just a good teacher, rather than Him also being the divine Son of God? I began to recount anything that I had ever read in the Bible regarding Jesus and if He were married or not. There is nothing that states that He was or was not. Then I thought of Peter. It clearly states that Peter had a Mother-In-Law.Simon was the original name of Peter, before Jesus renamed him Cephas which is translated to Peter.
KJV : MARK 1:29 Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and they told Him about her at once. 31 So He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her. And she served them.
This showed me that even though Peter had a Mother-In-Law, there is nothing spoken of regarding his wife or if they had children or not. If this is the case, then I suppose it could have been the case for Jesus as well. So, I still wondered, why then is this made into such a big deal? Whether He was married or single, what does that have to do with the message of Love and salvation that Jesus came to share with us?
I feel the first thing we should do to find Truth, is take what we know from the Bible. This is a verse of Jesus speaking in regards to marriage:
1 TIM 4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.