In The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Sacred Text, NYU professor Barrie Wilson and documentarian Simcha Jacobovici say secret gospels provide proof that Jesus was a married father.
“What the Vatican feared — and what [Da Vinci Code author] Dan Brown only suspected — has come true,” according to “The Lost Gospel.”
“There is now written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary the Magdalene and that they had children together. Gathering dust in the British Library is a document that takes us into the missing years of Jesus’s life.
According to the document that we uncovered, sometime during this period he became engaged, got married, had sexual relations, and produced children. Before anyone gets his/her theological back up, keep in mind that we are not attacking anyone’s theology. We are reporting on text.”
Wilson and Jacobovici say their evidence for Jesus’ marriage comes in an ancient scroll called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor dating back nearly 1,500 years.
In the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown also suggested Jesus had married Mary Magdalene and had children with her, igniting heated denials from the world’s massive Catholic population.
The Lost Gospel authors, who worked on their book for six years, also claim there was an assassination attempt on Jesus’ life 13 years before he was crucified.