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Was Jesus married?

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It is possible for Jesus to be married. Theologically, I don't think it would have great consequences.

Is it likely that Jesus was married?

I would doubt that. The NT seems to assume that Jesus didn't have a wife. If Jesus had had a wife, I'd think that it would have been mentioned in the gospels, Matthew 13:
55 “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
There is no mention of Jesus' wife at this most natural point to do so.

Jesus mentioned 3 types of eunuchs, Matthew 19:
12 For [1] there are eunuchs who were born that way, and [2] there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and [3] there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
Jesus seems to belong to the 3rd type.

Paul followed this sentiment in 1 Corinthians 7:
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” ...
32 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. 33But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife.
There is also the joke about the Pope would not claim infallibility if he were married :)

Ideally, an unmarried man can focus his whole life on God. I think Jesus practiced this ideal.
 

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It is possible for Jesus to be married. Theologically, I don't think it would have great consequences.

Is it likely that Jesus was married?

I would doubt that. The NT seems to assume that Jesus didn't have a wife. If Jesus had had a wife, I'd think that it would have been mentioned in the gospels, Matthew 13:

There is no mention of Jesus' wife at this most natural point to do so.

Jesus mentioned 3 types of eunuchs, Matthew 19:

Jesus seems to belong to the 3rd type.

Paul followed this sentiment in 1 Corinthians 7:

There is also the joke about the Pope would not claim infallibility if he were married :)

Ideally, an unmarried man can focus his whole life on God. I think Jesus practiced this ideal.
Josephus described the Essenes of the first century:

These Essens reject pleasures as an evil, but esteem continence, and the conquest over our passions, to be virtue. They neglect wedlock, but choose out other persons children, while they are pliable, and fit for learning, and esteem them to be of their kindred, and form them according to their own manners. - The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus, Book II, Chapter 8
 
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