Indeed. Marriage is a mitzvah (commandment) to all Jewish men, not just kohein, Levites, and rabbis. Gen 2:18 "It is not good for man to be alone," provides the basis for that even before the "be fruitful and multiply" .
A unmarried man can be a rabbi (a person learned in Jewish law and tradition). But at 29-30 years of age, it would be considered unusual, if not unnatural for Jesus to be without a wife.
Then there's the reading of haftarah in Luke.
On the Sabbath in Orthodox synagogues, only married men are called to read from the book of Prophets, -- the Haftarah. A adolescent boy might read (whisper along with) from the Torah on their bar mitzvah, but that's aliyah, not haftarah.
The possibilities are:
1. Jesus was married or at least betrothed (In biblical times, the distinction was when the husband took the wife into his home).
2. Luke made up the story in Luke 4:16-20
3. Jesus was in the first ever Jewish-Reformed synagogue.
Indeed. Marriage is a mitzvah (commandment) to all Jewish men, not just kohein, Levites, and rabbis. Gen 2:18 "It is not good for man to be alone," provides the basis for that even before the "be fruitful and multiply" .
An unmarried man can be a rabbi (a person learned in Jewish law and tradition). But at 29-30 years of age, it would be considered unusual, if not unnatural for Jesus to be without a wife.
Then there's the reading of haftarah in Luke. On the Sabbath in Orthodox synagogues, only married men are called to read from the book of Prophets, -- the Haftarah.
An adolescent boy might read (whisper along with) from the Torah on their bar mitzvah, but that's aliyah, not haftarah.
The possibilities are:
1. Jesus was married or at least betrothed (In biblical times, the distinction was when the husband took the wife into his home).
2. Luke made up the story in Luke 4:16-20
3. Jesus was in the first ever Jewish-Reformed synagogue.
I hadn't come across this all but indisputable reference before but am printing it out for my records...tucked into some NON-fiction books on the subject that gives the history of the marriage customs, particularly for the Royal Blood line of The Vine, of Jesus' time, along with correct translations of terms, like consort, virgin, for example.
I find Sir Laurence Gardner's & Margaret Starbird's books to be my favorites...and I find these explanations much more plausible and "un-convoluted" than what most churches have cobbled together over the years.
For me, these 'ideas' bring Jesus much closer and His teachings and promises to and for us much more attainable and comforting - and He promised to send The Comforter - direct to each of us, not through another person - and that The Comforter would make known the truth of all things to us...that we receive the truth from The Father ONLY through HIM - not another person, for we are all equal in The Father's eyes...
Another quote from Luke (also covered inMatthew) :
Luke 6:43-44
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Luke 6:44 For every tree is known by his own fruit.
and Luke"13:26 = "By their works ye shall know them..."
He gave us the measure by which to recognize who follows His teachings and who doesn't. If they, be it individual or organization, do things that are in conflict with God's Laws, then they cannot be trusted and we follow at our peril. (How many of man's organizations pass this muster?)