Twenty years ago there was a lot to do about discussions brought forward by the speculation that Jesus would have fallen in love with Mary Magdalene and would have had children by her.
In the previous posting you could read that after his third novel, Deception Point (2001), Dan Brown returned to Langdon with The Da Vinci Code, a thriller that centres on art history, Christianity’s origins, and arcane theories, but had the historical truth so violated that a lot of historians rose alongside clerics.
For Trinitarian Christians, the thought of their god mating with a woman of light morals was completely beyond permissible and it was impossible that such a thing could ever have happened. It is already a difficult matter for them, that she was full of evil spirits and that Jesus took her on to follow him. After Jesus cleansed her of seven demons (Luke 8:2 and Mark 16:9), probably implying that he cured her of a physical disorder rather than the popular notion that he freed her of evil spirits, she was allowed to accompany him. She also helped Jesus in Galilee (Luke 8:1–2). She is not just a novel character, but a real figure which can be found in all four canonical Gospels, attesting that she witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and burial. John 19:25–26 further notes that she stood by the stake, near the Virgin Mary and the unidentified Apostle whom Jesus loved.
Both the book as well as the film received a lot of controversy and got a vulcano eruption on many MSN Groups and Blogs. Mostly from the Catholic Church it was met with especially harsh criticism for the accusation that it is behind a two-thousand-year-old cover-up concerning what the Holy Grail really is and the concept that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were married and that the union produced a daughter. But many bible students and serious researchers had criticism.
In 1980 there also had been found a grave with the inscription “Yeshua bar Yosef” giving us the impression it is the grave of Jeshua ben Josef, Jesus the son of Joseph. In the same tomb, there was also written “Mariamne e Mara” (Mary, known as the master) referring to Mary Magdalene and finding other boxes inscribed with the names Mary (another Mary), Matthew, Joseph and Judas, which does not have to mean that all the family of Miriam (Mary, mother of Jesus) and Josef (Joseph, worldly father of Jesus) were placed together with the son of man Jeshua, which the world knows better as Jesus Christ.
Arnaud de Sède, son of Gérard de Sède, stated categorically that his father and Plantard had made up the existence of the Prieuré de Sion, the cornerstone of the Jesus bloodline theory:
“frankly, it was piffle” {O’Neill, Tim (2006), “55. Early Christianity and Political Power”, History versus the Da Vinci Code, archived from the original on May 15, 2009, retrieved February 16, 2009.}
noting that the concept of a descendant of Jesus was also an element of the 1999 Kevin Smith film Dogma. That film was also denounced as blasphemy by the Catholic League.
Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay the 13th-century Cistercian monk and chronicler, had already brought forward that idea, reporting that Cathars believed that the ‘evil’ and ‘earthly’ Jesus Christ had a relationship with Mary Magdalene, described as his concubine (and that the ‘good Christ’ was incorporeal and existed spiritually in the body of Paul).
Back in September of 2012 Professor Karen King of the Harvard Divinity School, announced that a papyrus fragment that had come into her supervision made reference to Jesus having a wife. The papyrus fragment included the words,
“Jesus said to them, ‘My wife.'”
Smithsonian found this interesting enough to produce a major television program on the finding, promising that the fragment would
“send shock waves through the Christian world.”
The so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” was back in the news and back in public conversation.
Karen King’s 2003 book, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle, argued that another text from the era presented Mary Magdalene as the very model for apostleship.
In reality, the fragment of papyrus contained only about 30 Coptic words in eight fragmentary lines of writing.
According to the Gnostic Gospels, and the original writings of the apostles, Jesus was merely a human prophet, not a demigod. Therefore, to change Jesus’ image, Constantine destroyed the Gnostic Gospels and promoted the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, twisting their words which according to the Roman Catholic Church and many protestants, portray Jesus as divine or semi-divine.
The main antagonist of the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation is a historian, who set his goal of obtaining the Holy Grail, killing everybody who wants to keep its identity hidden. He says:
“Fortunately for historians some of the gospels which Constantine attempted to eradicate managed to survive.
However, the Dead Sea Scrolls –which were found in 1947 (not in the “1950s” as Sir Teabing states) hidden in a cave near Qumran in the Judean desert — do not contain any “gospel” narratives about Jesus. About 15,000 fragments from 500 manuscripts were found from every book of the Old Testament canon — except Esther.
The Isaiah scroll, found relatively intact, is 1000 years older than any previously known copy of Isaiah. In fact, the scrolls are the oldest group of Old Testament manuscripts ever found.
Isaiah’s prophesies about the coming Messiah speak of someone of flesh and blood to come, to be borne out of the tribe of David, out of the stock of Jesse, out of a virgin.
“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” (Isa 7:14 NIV)
“A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.” (Isa 11:1 NIV)
“Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.” (Lu 2:11 NIV)
It was going to be an ordinary man, not looking special, that he would be desired.
“He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” (Isa 53:2 NIV)
He would first have to die for our transgressions before being called
“Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”. (Isaiah 9:6)
From the Book of books we know about the coming saviour of mankind who would die without any children.
“By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken” (Isaiah 53:8 NIV).
Truly, Isaiah’s testimony discredits The Da Vinci Code‘s premise of Jesus having had a child before he was crucified.
Apocalypse of Peter
Sir Teabing also mentions the texts found in the Nag Hammadi Library as some of the Gospels Constantine rejected. These ancient Christian books, discovered in 1945, nowhere state that Jesus married Mary Magdelene.
In the gospels is spoken about a mariage of Jesus, which is still to come. Jesus’ Bride is still in preparation but soon will be ready.
“7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. 8 Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.” (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)” (Re 19:7-8 NIV)
“The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.” (Re 22:17 NIV)
“I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.” (Re 21:2 NIV)
“One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”” (Re 21:9 NIV)
The one to be given honour is the son of God, in whom people have to come to believe.
“”For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (Joh 3:16 NIV)
There shall come a time that we shall be able to see the marriage of the Lamb, but it shall not be with Mary Magdalene. Jesus his wife shall have made herself ready. But that wife we would call the church and her children the thirsty Christians.
“Then the Pneuma and the Bride say: “Come!” And let the one who hears say: “Come!” Let the one who thirsts come. Let the one who wants drink of the Water of Life as a free gift.” (Re 22:17 MHM)
“Because the Lamb in the middle of the Throne will shepherd and guide them to fountains of waters of life. The God will wipe out every tear from their eyes.”” (Re 7:17 MHM)
From Scriptures we also know that Jesus is not God, but the son of God who shall sit next to God on the throne of the lamb.
“1 And the angel showed me a River of Life. It was crystal clear 2 and it flowed from the Throne of The God and the throne of the Lamb right down the middle of her Broadway. On either side of the River was a Wood of Life that produced 12 fruit crops each month, yielding fruit. The leaves of the Wood were for the curing of the nations.” (Re 22:1-2 MHM)
To the one who was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, the fine linen is the righteousness of saints, their children to whom the Spirit and the bride may say,
‘Come!’
So that Jesus and his Bride will give life to “whosoever will” to “take the water of life freely.” The whole world will be given an opportunity to become their children! But they shall have to be willing to hear and act wisely, having cleansed themselves so that no dirt of the earth would be on them.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.” (Re 2:7 NIV)
“”Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.” (Re 22:14 NIV)
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Preceding
20 years ago: the Da Vinci Code
Scientist Claims He’s Discovered The “Lost Tomb” Of Jesus Christ
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Additional reading
- A tomb looked for
- Matthew 27 – The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – Bible Students Intro
- Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #11 Matthew 27:55-56 – The Women Who Witness the Execution
- Matthew 28 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Risen Christ appears #1 Matthew 28:1 – Two Marys Visit the Grave
- Matthew 28 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Risen Christ appears #4 Matthew 28:8-10 – The Two Marys Met by the Risen Christ
- Matthew 28 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Risen Christ appears #6 Matthew 28:16-19 – The King’s Commission
- Anointing as a sign of Promotion
- Today’s thought “They would not believe it” (August 21)
- Talpiot Tomb a family grave of the tribe of Jesus
- Jesus is risen
- Days of Nisan, Pesach, Pasach, Pascha and Easter
- Synagogue of Magdala unearthed
- Marriage of Jesus 1 Mary, John, Judas, Thomas and Brown
- Marriage of Jesus 2 Standard writings about Jesus
- Marriage of Jesus 3 Listening women
- Marriage of Jesus 4 Place of the woman
- Marriage of Jesus 5 Papyrus fragment in Egyptian Coptic
- Marriage of Jesus 6 Jesus said to them “My wife”
- Marriage of Jesus 7 Impaled
- Marriage of Jesus 8 Wife of Yahweh
- Marriage of Jesus 10 Old and New Covenant
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Further related
- The Top Six Alternate Gospels and Scriptures
- The Forbidden Gospel of Mary Magdalene
- The real Jesus – The Talpiot tomb
- New Controversy Surrounds Alleged ‘Jesus Family Tomb’
- Synagogue in Mary Magdalene’s town where Jesus preached unearthed in Israel
- The lost tomb of Jesus? Scientist claims he has virtually unequivocal evidence[W:577]
- It’s Back — The “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” and the State of Modern Scholarship
- The ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ is Still as Big a Mystery as Ever
- ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ Looks More and More Like a Fake
- The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife? When Sensationalism Masquerades as Scholarship
- “No Evidence of Modern Forgery in Ancient Text Mentioning Jesus’s Wife,”
- ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ likely isn’t a modern forgery, scientists claim
- The ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ Is Real: What Now?
- The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife ~ A Rogueclassicist Perspective
- No Forgery Evidence Seen in “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” Papyrus
- ‘Jesus wife’ text no fake – expert
- Festival of Saint Mary Magdalene
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