Apart from the apostle Paul, did the 10 other apostles have a wife like the apostle Peter ?

Question

Apart from the apostle Paul, did the 10 other apostles have a wife like the apostle Peter ?

Answer 1

According to Clement of Alexandria, Peter and Philip were married and had children, and Paul probably did, too. (1)

But who were these "many women who followed Jesus from Galilee " (Mt 27:55-56; Mk 15:40 -41; Lk 8:1-3; 23:49 , 55; 24:10)? Some of them are named ("Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons."), but apparently there were many others. It's rather surprising that there is no hint of the pharisees accusing Jesus and the apostles of impropriety, given the many women who accompanied them. One possible explanation is that these many women may have included the apostles' wives. (2)

Answer 2

Because Christ never said anything about his followers marrying. It was Paul's calling from God to remain abstinent and keep from marriagee.

Answer 3

I imagine the older ones did. It is possible that the younger ones did not. John, the beloved apostle, was unmarried. Matthew, Mark and Luke were married. For the first part of the church's history many popes, bishops and priests were married.

Answer 4

Do you mean Peter? The apostle Paul was never married, and was never one of the twelve.

Peter and the other apostles were married.

Answer 5

Yes they had wives. The Bible says so in 1 Corinthians 9:5.

Answer 6

How many of the other apostles had wives? Paul may be using hyperbole here, but it sounds like he is implying that he, and possibly Barnabas (1Co 9:16 ) were the only apostles who didn't follow this practice.

We don't know when these other apostles married. It is certainly possible it was subsequent to their three and a half years with Jesus, but it isn't necessarily so, just because their wives are not mentioned in the account. We would only conclude this when reading the account filtered through modern paradigms. Today it would seem highly inappropriate to neglect mentioning the apostles' wives. But if it weren't for the single parenthetical comment by Paul, we would have no direct mention of the apostles' wives at all. If it weren't for that statement, many would assume from the scripture's silence that they weren't married. Yet this appears to be a relatively recent paradigm.

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