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Jesus and John at the Last Supper, by Valentin de Boulogne. The Gospel of John makes references to the "disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 13:23, [27] John 19:26, [28] John 21:7–20), [29] a phrase which does not occur in the Synoptic Gospels. In the text, this "beloved disciple" is present at the crucifixion of Jesus, with Jesus' mother, Mary.
Celibacy is the ideal path of exclusive concern for the Kingdom of God, exemplified in monasticism, while marriage is a reflection of the Messianic covenant and blessed under the context of true unitive love ("Man must love his wife as Jesus loved his Church": this phrase is part of the Orthodox marriage rite) with openness to procreation ...
Historical Jesus; Historicity of Jesus; Images of Jesus; Jesus and John the Baptist; Jesus Christ Superstar; Jesus in the Christian Bible; Jesus Movement ...
Asbury Theological Seminary Bible scholar Ben Witherington III confirms the New Testament account of Mary Magdalene as historical: "Mary was an important early disciple and witness for Jesus." [ 46 ] He continues, "There is absolutely no early historical evidence that Miriam's (Mary's) relationship with Jesus was anything other than that of a ...
The "two becoming one" concept, first cited in Genesis 2, was quoted by Jesus in his teachings on marriage and recorded almost identically in the gospels of both Matthew and Mark. [163] In those passages Jesus reemphasized the concept by adding a divine postscript to the Genesis passage: "So, they are no longer two, but one" (NIV).
No passage in the Christian scriptural canon unambiguously describes a sexual act or relation of Jesus (as distinct from his relatively few but telling remarks about sexuality). Jesus was explicitly argued to have been a lifelong celibate by some Church fathers, and this understanding entered tradition, although without much subsequent emphasis.
Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption, a 2011 documentary about the play Corpus Christi (see below), but not itself a depiction of Jesus as gay or bisexual; The gay Jesus film hoax, a long-running chain letter that claims that a film will soon be released depicting Jesus as gay, initially related to The Many Faces of Jesus (see above) [3] and later including references to Corpus Christi (see ...
The words abstinence and celibacy are often used interchangeably, but are not necessarily the same thing.Sexual abstinence, also known as continence, [10] is abstaining from some or all aspects of sexual activity, often for some limited period of time, [11] while celibacy may be defined as a voluntary religious vow not to marry or engage in sexual activity.