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If Jesus was married, would it change anything that he said or did? Would it change why he had to come to earth? Would it change his message? Remember, Jesus himself said that he had to fulfill the law. It is my understanding that the Jews at that time, considered the first law that God gave was to be fruitful and multiply. Personally, I don't think it matters one bit whether Jesus was married or not. Besides, the Bible is NOT a biography of Jesus, but of his ministry from God. So, what does it matter if he had a wife or not. There was a book published in 1949(?) that addressed this very question. I think the title was “Was Jesus Married?”, but I can’t remember the author. I do remember the author saying that if Jesus hadn’t been married, then there would have been serious questioning of his “Jewishness”, and even fewer people would have listened to his message. Also, the life expectancy at that time was what? Late 20’s, early 30’s? The author went on to say that perhaps that is why Jesus didn’t start his teachings until after he was thirty, because maybe his wife had died by then, or worse, had left him by then. Remember when Jesus was questioned about divorce and what he said? Could that question have been because the questioners knew that he had a wife that had left him? What I am saying is, if Jesus was married, would it change our belief in Jesus and God? If it does, then maybe we need to get back to the basics of our belief in God, because we are becoming too much like the Pharisees and Sadducees; concentrating too much on rules, human introduced doctrine, and such and not on the message that Jesus brought us. This “debate” takes away from the message! God loves us and will forgive us, but only by accepting the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. So tell me, where does the question of whether Jesus was married or not even enters into that picture?

Okay, so much for what I've got to say, so I'll just shut up and log off. Besides, I've got to get ready to go to a football game. Take care folks.

I find the whole thing to be typical of the media.. so unsurprising. Man's foolishness to look for folly, instead of the value. I agree that the fact what only really matters is, do you believe? Did "God come and dwell among us?" I watch man suffer all of the time, mostly by his own doing, myself included.
God saves us all..
if we would only listen, instead of asserting our own will.

"Personally, I don't think it matters one bit whether Jesus was married or not. Besides, the Bible is NOT a biography of Jesus, but of his ministry from God."

One of the amazing things about the Bible is that it IS INDEED a biography of sorts of Jesus. See Luke 24:27 "...He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning HIMSELF." (emphasis mine) Note that he didn't expound "his ministry" in the Scriptures (the Old Testament) but the things concerning Himself.

It opens up an exciting vista when we read it carefully.