Jesus Was Married? Why ‘The Lost Gospel’ Is Wackier Than Dan Brown’s ‘The Da Vinci Code’

“Jesus was married!” is the proclamation made by Professor Barrie Wilson and documentarian Simcha Jacobovici, who have been working on a book called The Lost Gospel for the last six years. But already experts are lining up to dispute the assertions made in a book that eerily seems to follow a fictional storyline created by Dan Brown for his novel, The Da Vinci Code.

In a related report by The Inquisitr, some of Jesus’ miracles were written about by ancient authors, but lately the trend has become to claim that Jesus Christ never existed.

Wilson and Jacobovici don’t go that far, but they do say Jesus was married. Unfortunately, it’s the manner in which they come to this conclusion that makes their ideas seem less plausible than The Da Vinci Code. Speaking of which, the two professors make it abundantly clear they are attempting to ride on the coat-tails of the popular book and movie based upon their opening lines.

“What the Vatican feared — and what Dan Brown only suspected — has come true,” begins the book. “There is now written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and that they had children together…Gathering dust in the British Library is a document that takes us into the missing years of Jesus’s life… According to the document that we uncovered, sometime during this period he became engaged, got married, had sexual relations, and produced children. Before anyone gets his/her theological back up, keep in mind that we are not attacking anyone’s theology. We are reporting on text.”

Unfortunately, their report on the text, called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor, requires a lot of imagination in order to claim that Jesus was married. The actual text merely describes a man named Joseph who was married to a woman named Aseneth, and the couple had two children. But Wilson and Jacobovici claim they managed to decode a hidden meaning behind the text, discovering the secret message that Jesus was married with children. Jesus’ wife is pegged as Mary Magdalene, although the actual text doesn’t seem to provide any evidence that requires this particular woman from the Bible to be his wife instead of someone else.

The way they proclaim that Jesus was married happens to mirror the way a character from The Da Vinci Code asserts the idea.

…the greatest cover-up in human history. Not only was Jesus Christ married, but He was a father. My dear, Mary Magdalene was the Holy Vessel. She was the chalice that bore the royal bloodline of Jesus Christ. She was the womb that bore the lineage…”

Dan Brown goes on to write in his fictional story that Mary, accompanied by Joseph of Arimathea, fled to France, where she gave birth to Jesus’ daughter Sarah. Of course, in order to make this all interesting, there was a great cover-up by the Catholic Church, and a group willing to kill to keep the secret. These ideas were based upon Gnostic texts like the Gospel Of Thomas, which had Jesus Christ making statements that would drive feminists nuts.

Simon Peter said to them, ‘Make Mary leave us, for females don’t deserve life.’ Jesus said, ‘Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven'” (Thomas 114).

There’s also another good reason to doubt Wilson and Jacobovici saying that Jesus was married. Jacobovici previously became famous back in 2002 when he made a large media push based upon the so-called James ossuary. Archaeologists from all over the world eventually denounced the James ossuary as a hoax and its owner was even indicted on charges of forgery. So it might be best to heed the words of University of Arizona archaeologist William G. Dever, who told the world the real reason Jacobovici keeps pushing out such amazing finds in history.

It’s a publicity stunt, and it will make these guys very rich. And it will upset millions of innocent people because they don’t know enough to separate fact from fiction.”

In short, when Wilson and Jacobovici say Jesus was married, it’s as believable as a fictional novel.

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