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Shocking Revelations: Was Jesus Christ Married?

The world was taken by surprise in 2003 when novelist Dan Brown released his most controversial book, The Da Vinci Code. The book talked about Christianity's biggest mystery: Jesus Christ's marriage. The book claimed that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene, who has been referred to as a concubine throughout the history of Christianity. It also claimed that Jesus had fathered a child with Mary Magdalene. Most of these claims were then dismissed as untrue.

However a 1,500-year-old manuscript in the vaults of the British library is all set to shake the world, once again. Professor Barrie Wilson and writer Simcha Jacobovic spent years translating the text from Aramaic, which reveals some shocking facts about Jesus's life. It claims that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and had two children. The book is titled The Lost Gospel.

Shocking Revelations: Was Jesus Christ Married?

These claims are solely based on the translated text from the Aramaic manuscript, which dates back to 570 AD. Jesus and Mary Magdalene were supposedly married by the Pharaoh of Egypt and they had two sons out of the marriage.

It is however not the first time that such a claim has been made regarding the marital status of Jesus Christ. Let us have a look at what historians claim on whether Jesus was married or not.

The 13th century Cistercial monk Peter of Vaux de Cernay had claimed that according to the Catharist belief, Jesus Christ had relationship with Mary Magdalene at some level. The French socialist politician, Louis Martin, in his book, Les Evangiles sans Dieu, had gone further to claim that the historical Jesus had turned atheist, had married Mary Magdalene and travelled south of France where they had a son.

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The 20th century book The Jesus Scroll by Donovan Joyce was the first among the lot to talk about Jesus's bloodline and His relationship with Mary Magdalene. A 1977 book Jesus died in Kashmir: Jesus, Moses and the ten lost tribes of Israel by Andreas Faber-Kaiser claimed that Jesus travelled to Kashmir where he met and married a Kashmiri woman with whom he had many children.

Later in 1982, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln popularised the hypothesis that Jesus's bloodline was carried forward by His daughter and it still survives through the Merovingian dynasty in their book, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail.

The latest revelations in The Lost Gospel say that document is coded and the story of Jesus's marriage with Mary Magdalene is hidden in the Old Testament. The character of Jospeh and his wife Aseneth are actually Jesus and Mary Magdalene. It also claims to reveal the names of Jesus's two children and his connection to powerful political figures of the Roman empire.

The Lost Gospel is based on a translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor, written on treated animal skin. It was brought to the United Kingdom in 1847 when the British Museum bought it from an Egyptian monastery. Most scholars, after studying the manuscript, discarded it as insignificant.

But the authors of The Lost Gospel claim that the manuscript has embedded meanings as they have studied it for six years. The manuscript, written in Syriac (the Middle Eastern language spoken by Jesus) on vellum, has been in the British Library's archives for 20 years.

Most other scholars have dismissed the claims as they have termed it "pretty unremarkable". But nevertheless, Mary Magdalene remains an unresolved mystery. She has been an important Biblical character and a whole lot of speculations have arisen surrounding her. Some of these speculations might have theories in support of her. But again, they remain speculations.

True or not, The Lost Gospel has definitely stirred the minds of people yet again. The mystery of whether Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, their children and other remarkable revelations are sure to spark off a lot of controversies throughout the world.

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