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Emmanuel Shebbs
Jesus Christ did not die on the cross, he had married Mary Magdalene, and the happy couple had two children by the time Christ was crucified. The shocking revelation comes from a lost ‘Gospel’ dating back to 570 AD and written in Syriac — a Middle Eastern literary language used between the 4th and 8th centuries and related to Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.
Written on vellum — treated
animal skin — it had been in the archives of the British Library for about 20
years. The British Museum had originally bought it in 1847 from a dealer who
said he had obtained it from the ancient St Macarius Monastery in Egypt.
For the past 160 years, the
document has been studied by a few scholars but has been considered pretty
unremarkable. But after six years of study by Simcha Jacobovici, an
Israeli-Canadian film-maker, and Barrie Wilson, a professor of religious
studies, a missing fifth gospel was found.
The
researchers are convinced they’ve uncovered a missing fifth gospel — to add to
the four gospels, which tell the story of the life of Christ and are said to
have been written by the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, in the 1st
century AD.
Jacobovici
believes that his ‘lost gospel’ proves that Jesus must have a wife. He says: “Jesus is called a “rabbi” in the gospels. And
a rabbi, to this day, in order to have a congregation and a ministry, has to be
married. If he’s going to lead a congregation, he’s got to be a model for that
congregation. In the first century, you reach manhood — you get married.”
To emphasise his belief that Mary of Magdalene was Jesus’s wife,
he describes her decision to visit his body on the Sunday after the
Crucifixion. “The gospels told us why she
went there — to wash and anoint his body. She’s just a follower and yet she’s
going to unwrap his naked body? Women do not wash rabbis or male bodies. Only
males do it — unless you are the man’s wife.”
And so,
could centuries of Christian teaching be wrong and that Jesus was a husband and
father? If true, this would make it the greatest revelation into the life of
Jesus in nearly 2,000 years. The theory is based on the claims that this ‘lost’
gospel and the ‘encrypted’ story of Jesus’s marriage was the work of a group of
persecuted Christians and apparently disappeared from public view around 325
AD.
Source: http://www.naij.com/319990-jesus-married-mary-magdalen-had-children.html
