Was Jesus Married?

One of the religious controversies in Dan Brown's popular historical fiction book "The Da Vinci Code" is the claim that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene during his 3 year ministry. I'm no expert on the subject, but suspect not.

On the other hand, I have no objection to the idea that Jesus might have been married at some point previous to beginning his public ministry. We know absolutely nothing about his life between age 12 and 30 from the Bible itself, so it is entirely possible that he was married during part of that time.

He certainly wasn't opposed to sex within marriage, or he wouldn't have attended the wedding at Cana in Galilee near the start of his ministry (John chapter 2, verses 1 through 10), let alone provide wine for the occasion!

I do agree though, that he was not still married or the father of a living child by the time he began his ministry, or someone would almost certainly have recorded that information in the Bible. It was already unusual for Jesus to leave his "eldest son" responsibilities for ministry, let alone the question of leaving the additional responsibilities of a husband or father.

I also find it difficult to believe Jesus would have divorced anyone, given his own later teachings about divorce (in Matthew chapter 5, verses 31 and 32.)

Anyone interested in learning more about this topic can find plenty of relevant information provided by Mark Roberts here, including the (to both Roberts and me humorous) theological dilemna posed by a surviving child: "Would that child inherit a sinful nature? Would that child be three-fourths human and one-fourth God?"