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1 | Married apostles | Matt 8:14 | deby | 38880 | ||
Which of all New Testament apostles were married? What are the scripture references? | ||||||
2 | Married apostles | Matt 8:14 | Brent Douglass | 39062 | ||
Peter, Jesus' brothers (presumably the epistle writers James and Jude), as well as "the other apostles" had wives. Paul (and probably Barnabas) did not. It is not clear exactly which apostles were or were not married, but Paul's wording in 1 Corinthians 9 appears to indicate that marriage was the norm among most of the apostles. (1Co 9:3-6 "My defense to those who examine me is this: Do we not have a right ... to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right..?" We don't know with exact certainty by name which apostles were married or which were single -- with 2 exceptions: Peter(Cephas) was married, and Paul was not. I think that's about the only reference we have one way or the other as to the marital status of any of the specific apostles. I would be very careful of any assumptions that only Peter was married simply because there is no direct statement about any other specific apostles. Such an argument would be based on LACK of specific evidence rather than being based on any real evidence. The letters and histories of the New Testament were written at a time when the marital status of the apostles was probably well known, so there was no reason to deliberately describe it. It would also be contrary to Paul's indication in the passage above. Paul is simply making a general statement here, not declaring all the other apostles to be married, so we can't draw that conclusion either. (Paul's point was that Barnabas and he had given up a number of normal "rights" and practices for the sake of their special calling; he was not setting out to differentiate which apostles were and were not married.) |
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