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Originally Posted by sky123

The Bible Busby only tells you what the Church wants you to know. I cannot see any reason for why he would not have married, and I think it would have happened during his ' lost years '.
Why was Mary Magdalena allowed to wash his body, surely this would never have been allowed unless she was his wife ?

Sky, it's true that the Bible only tells us what the Church wants us to know. The simple fact is that, in the 5th century, the Church leaders had a meeting where they decided which scriptures went into the Bible and which did not. They chose from a large number of Christian writings, some of which taught about Reincarnation which they thought should not be included in the Bible. Therefore, the latter is very incomplete because important scriptures are missing from it.
You make an excellent point about Mary washing Jesus' body. She annointed his head and feet with expensive ointment, a ritual that only was done by a man's wife in preparation for his burial.