![]() He was incapable of deliberately causing such unnecessary pain.Ĥ. If He married, He certainly would leave a widow, probably with small children to rear alone. While He now waits for His marriage to His betrothed Bride, the Church, He is preparing for her a heavenly home (John 14:2–3), readying for her a perfect and eternal place of protection.ģ. He would not have asked any woman to share such a life. For three years, Jesus lived as a homeless healer-teacher (Luke 9:58). A married Jesus would have had to place His wife’s needs above those of the world He came to rescue (see 1 Corinthians 7:32–35).Ģ. And a wife would have been a distraction to Jesus’ primary mission. ![]() His strenuous travel and demanding work load would have prevented Him from rightly fulfilling the roles of husband and father. Jesus did not marry because He had limited time on earth. ![]() Several possibilities have been suggested to explain Jesus’ singleness:ġ. No Scripture directly answers the question of why Jesus never married. As a hard-working and skilled carpenter, a man with a magnetically good character and winsome personality, and with His years of fame and miracle-working, it is likely that more than one woman gave Him opportunity to marry. Since Jesus was the ideal and model man, it is easy to wonder why He did not marry and father children during His earthly life.
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