Just caught a part of a GMA interview Diane Sawyer had with Kathleen McGowan who claims to be a descendant of Jesus and has written a novel about the whole Jesus was married to Mary phenomena.
For an extended discussion of this topic, check out Mark D. Robert's analysis.
In brief, his point is that the well known four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) don't indicate that Jesus was married.
So where did the idea come from?
It came from non-canonical gospels. There was a whole slew of less well known documents that claim to be about the life, times and teachings of Jesus. However, their historical reliability is relatively weak.
Imagine if you are an alien from outer space and you wanted to know about life on earth and the only thing you read was those magazines at the grocery store check out counter!
You'd get a pretty strange picture of life on earth!
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