Historian Says Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus’s Wife

Papyrus scrap referring to the wife of Jesus. PHOTO: nytimes.com

A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …’ ”

Read the translated legible text and the entire article online in the New York Times.

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