Guess what—Jesus not only has a wife; he’s got a sister-in-law as well.
The “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”—that well-publicized scrap of centuries-old papyrus bearing the Coptic words “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife’”—has an equally old twin-sister scrap bearing some phrases from the Coptic version of the New Testament Gospel of John. That latter fragment was part of a cache of six small pieces of papyrus written in Coptic (a language of ancient Egypt) and acquired, their anonymous owner told Harvard Divinity School professor Karen L. King, from another collector, a German named Hans-Ulrich Laukamp. King is the religion scholar who unveiled the “Jesus’ wife” fragment to huge press hoopla at a Coptic conference in Rome on September 18, 2012.
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