Did Jesus have a mistress

Answer 1

no Some researchers believe that Mary Magdalene was his spouse and that during the crucifixion he spoke words of admonition to a young boy as a father would to a son. It is also believed that she led the ministry in his name. Categorically, no. The whole idea is not only preposterous but it flies in the face of everything that Jesus taught or stood for. The only 'researchers' that believed Mary Magdalene was his spouse were the writers of the Gospel of Mary - a group of gnostics who wrote about Jesus hundreds of years after the Christian movement began, and who had an axe to grind because of their unothodox beliefs, and, more recently, those who wished to sell a book based on sensationalism like Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, and 'The Da Vinci Code' by Brown. Neither book was based on a shred of firm evidence. Even the authors of the former declared their musings just a 'hypothesis' and Dan Brown openly declared his own book as 'fiction'. Christians believe that the only detailed records that we have of what happened and what was said at the crucifixion are to be found in the Gospel accounts. For them, the only close eyewitness who also wrote a gospel was John. In the above suggestion regarding a 'son' of Jesus, there is not one ounce of evidence to back this up. Nowhere in the Gospel accounts - not least that of John - do we hear any words of 'admonition' to anyone. Where the previous contributor found this 'research' is anyone's guess. To answer this question you have to look at the evidence, the social context of those days and the qualities, teaching and integrity of Jesus himself. We are told in the Gospel accounts and in many other secular historical accounts, that, with regard to sexual matters, Jesus taught that adultery - even looking at another woman lustfully - was wrong. He taught that marriage between two people meant the union of those two people into one unseparable unit. He taught love and respect for all. Nowhere in scripture does it say that he was married. We know Peter the disciple was married (Jesus healed his mother-in-law), and we are told that Paul the apostle was celibate. Judging by the lifestyle of Jesus, his teaching, his loving nature and his message, to suggest that he was married shows a total lack of understanding of his whole mission on earth. To suggest he had a mistress, is not just wrong - but bearing in mind his mission, is quite offensive.