[saradippity]

I am sick and tired of people pronouncing authoritatively "Peter had a wife". It is particularly offensive from the lips of people who consider themselves to be strict scripturalists and Christians of integrity.The most that anyone could say if they were honest is that "Peter was married before he was chosen by Jesua to be an apostle.No one can be sure that she did not die before he was selected.We do know his mother-in-law was still alive because Jesus healed her".

Joathome,if you were interpreting scripture yourself,then I am sorry for you because you interjected your wishful thinking into your interpretationn and present as truth. It is not.If you learned it in your Bible class from the leader or a fellow student you must go back and correct them. Or,if it was preached from the pulpit then you are listening to "false teachers" and you better get out of that place before you become tainted.

[joathome]

Oh, yeah. None of these twelve men had wives. Peter did have a wife, and although you might like to wish her dead, there is no reason to believe that she was. How DO you reconcile scriptures that give requirements--a man of one wife.....etc. That doesn't mean he HAD to have one wife, but he was surely ALLOWED one wife.

[Conservative til I die]

Don't some of the early post-Resurrection, pre-Gospel Traditions mention Peter's wife as part of the early Christian community?