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Did Jesus have a wife?

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    Rick Folbaum reports from New York

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I'm -- newsroom and the findings of -- Harvard scholar generated some controversy it's a new study of an -- scrap of paper from the fourth century.

About the size of the business card that -- Harvard divinity professor says could provide some evidence that may be Jesus Christ was married.

The paper belongs to an anonymous collector who brought it to the professor so that she could examine it.

Professor Karen King says that while traditional christianity has long preferred the idea that Jesus never married this fragment of papyrus.

Shows that some of the earliest Christians thought otherwise.

These are ideas that have caused controversy in the past including when it was included in that bestselling novel the Da Vinci code.

Which raised the possibility that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and skeptics are already weighing in on this study but many theologians guys say that this is a debate.

Worth having a one that will probably had to be had in a bunch of churches perhaps as early as this Sunday back to you.

-- -- debate for the attorney.

Yeah I -- that Rick thank you.

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