New Evidence that Jesus was Married and Had Children
A recently 6th revealed Century manuscript allegedly found in a British Library has created some stir. However, it shouldn’t. 
The Manuscript is known as the “Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor.”
and reason it was in the British library without gathering a lot of attention was because it had always been dismissed by scholars as insignificant until recently it was generously decoded for us… More on that later.
First of all, notice that it is a “6th century” manuscript. This account was written somewhere in the area of 500 or more years after the life and death of Jesus Christ.
Also, the manuscript actually tells a romantic story of the love between two characters: Joseph and Aseneth. According to ABC news, most scholars think this is a purely fictional story about the Patriarch Joseph (a son of Jacob who was sold into slavery in Egypt).
The name “Jesus” (or “Mary” no matter which Mary) do not appear in the text.
However, we have been rescued from biblical scholars and the actual document by Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson, who “decoded” the manuscript for us.
The creator of the newly released book “The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text That Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary Magdalene” is Simcha Jacobovici… who is also known for having claimed to have found the actual bones of Jesus in a tomb (Discovery Channel named it one of the top 10 scientific hoaxes of all time), the actual nails of Jesus and the Lost City of Atlantis.
The story of Joseph and Aseneth allegedly includes some “Jesus” themes like a last supper (the Passover meal that all Jews partake of annually) and that the male character is referred to as God’s son (apparently a relatively common term for Jewish men – keep in mind that in the actual Jesus’ time, it is possible that the prophetic term “son of man” would have created more controversy than “son of God”).
So, other than this is a document well known to actual scholars, from 5-6 centuries after the Apostles lives, that doesn’t mention Jesus or any Mary, “decoded” by a well known for being someone not to take seriously… who is selling his conclusions for $21.74…
Why am I even writing about this?
I have no idea whether Jesus was married or not. I think if He had been, it would have been mentioned by one of Gospel writers from the actual time of His life… there would be no reason to hide it. It would be no sin for him to have been married, had sex or kids!
He might also have been red-headed (as some medieval portraits portray Him), but again, we have no reason to think so and reasons to think a Jewish man would not be (right?). His parents and siblings are mentioned, so we would expect His wife to be, if there had been one.
However, we are still left with one new revelation after another made by one junk fiction writer after another cashing in on the Jesus + controversy formula. That is all this one is.
Here is the best conclusion I read in the research I was doing:
“It sounds like the deepest bilge,” Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford University professor told the Sunday Times. “I’m very surprised that the British Library gives these authors houseroom.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/married-jesus-book-adds-fuel-conspiracies-26857867
http://abcnews.go.com/International/jesus-christ-wife-mary-magdalene-kids-book-claims/story?id=26805418
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/11/10/lost-gospel-claims-jesus-was-married-had-children/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/opinion/parini-new-text-jesus-married-with-kids/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/10/the-book-that-claims-jesus-had-a-wife-and-kids-and-the-controversial-author-behind-it/
Many “ancient” documents arise from nowhere claimng to rewrite history in one form or another. As you noted, that it first appears in the 6th century is suspicious. Where was it before that? Is there a chain-of-custody?
This is what the Council of Nicea dealt with. They had a lof of ‘working documents” that had a chain-of-custody to an actual apostle, along with a lot of other documents that purported to be Scripture but had no chain-of custody. The bottom line: Walking with Christ changed those men into lions. Anything they wrote was protected and promulgated by their own disciples, such that there are over 26,000 extant copies of the New Testament from the First Century, and we could completely reconstruct the New Testament from first-century sermon notes.
Where is the origin and chain-of-custody of these other documents? The two tht are primarily in high regard but should be held in high question are the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. They disagree with each other over 300 times in the Gospels alone,and wholly disagree with the thousands of other extant texts, yet were the foundation of many modern versions of the Bible.
So, are you a King James only guy?