[ebb tide]

Be fruitful and multiply- except priests.

Did Jesus Christ or any of His twelve apostles "multiply"?

[boatbums]

Be fruitful and multiply- except priests.

Did Jesus Christ or any of His twelve apostles "multiply"?

Have we no right to food and to drink? Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas? (I Corinthians 9:5)

1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Titus 1:6
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, 5because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. By pointing out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and sound instruction that you have followed. (I Timothy 4:1-6)

We CAN know that Jesus didn't, but can anyone say the same about the Apostles? Well, let's see what some early church fathers mentioned:

From http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250103.htm, Eusebius of Caesarea's Church History talks a bit about this:

Of the family of the Lord there were still living the grandchildren of Jude, who is said to have been the Lord's brother according to the flesh.

Clement, indeed, whose words we have just quoted, after the above-mentioned facts gives a statement, on account of those who rejected marriage, of the apostles that had wives. Or will they, says he, reject even the apostles? For Peter and Philip begot children; and Philip also gave his daughters in marriage. And Paul does not hesitate, in one of his epistles, to greet his wife, whom he did not take about with him, that he might not be inconvenienced in his ministry.

That Philip the apostle dwelt at Hierapolis with his daughters has been already stated. But it must be noted here that Papias, their contemporary, says that he heard a wonderful tale from the daughters of Philip.

Clement, indeed, whose words we have just quoted, after the above-mentioned facts gives a statement, on account of those who rejected marriage, of the apostles that had wives. "Or will they," says he, "reject even the apostles? For Peter and Philip begot children; and Philip also gave his daughters in marriage. And Paul does not hesitate, in one of his epistles, to greet his wife, whom he did not take about with him, that he might not be inconvenienced in his ministry."

[oblomov]

Peter was married and may have had children.

Phillip was married also. He may have had four daughters, if he was the same Philip the Evangelist mentioned in Acts.

Philip’s daughters were evangelists in their own right, since they are mentioned in the context of converting people to Christianity.

Some of the other apostles were married as well, but the Bible doesn’t say which ones, specifically.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Did Jesus Christ or any of His twelve apostles "multiply"?

The odds are that many of His apostles did. The Bible talks about them having wives.