TheLightWithin
...through a glass, darkly
- Messages
- 1,366
- Reaction score
- 842
- Points
- 108
AFAIK it is speculation, based partly on the observation that a Jewish man of his age would have been married and it was unusual for him not to have been. However I don't know how much is really known about that, whether there were all sorts of reasons for people to be out of alignment with the norm, like at any time and any place, not everyone does what is average or expected.
Even if he did marry due to norms and his wife was not mentioned, I wonder if was due to him being widowed and he declined to remarry. However that is and always will be nothing but pure conjecture based on nothing but entertaining the premises that "it was unusual not to be married" and "the wife isn't mentioned" and putting that together with knowing how people sometimes respond to loss and grief. My conjecture is based on no substantial evidence. Speculation is fun and even edifying, but it's critical to maintain the distinction between what evidence we have, and what we don't have, and then what is just guesswork.
I don't know if this is stated or implied somewhere in the non canonical Gospels. I have a book of some of the non canonical gospels somewhere, read a bit of it then set it aside for graduate school (ages ago) and don't recall now what I learned.
I have heard the speculation that the wedding at Cana was his own wedding. I think it is interesting speculation. I don't recall what they clue was that had people speculating in that direction. Something in the dialogue. But AFAIK there is nothing else to corroborate it.
