[boatbums]

Having said that, did Peter stay with his wife when he followed Jesus?

It is also possible that she died sometime before Peter was following Jesus. The gospels never mention her, just the Mother in law. No one can for certain one way or the other.

I think that what we CAN know for certain is that Peter did not desert his wife or divorce her in order to follow Jesus. That would have been against Christ's leading and would have contradicted what was taught in the epistles from Paul and Peter. Also, Paul spoke about the subject of taking a wife and the freedom Christ's followers have here:

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? (I Cor. 9:5)

[Elsie]

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? (I Cor. 9:5)

But; what if he was married to Thomas' sister, and had an UNbelieving wife?

Could SHE go along?

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(These days; some 'believers' want to take along a male wife...)