[ATLian]

There's a lot of evidence, both factual and circumstantial, that points to him being married, but I haven't seen any evidence that can prove that he WASN'T married. I believe that Jesus was a "normal" man in all ways until he started his preaching. So he did everything normal Jewish men at that time did, including hanging out with his boys, boozing (remember the wine incident, there's no way he'd have turned that water into wine if he didn't think wine was OK), getting a career, and eventually getting married and getting kids. Then when his father called him, he had to leave all that behind and do his thing, same way all his disciples had to leave their wives and families and follow him.

Later on when the Catholic church decided that celibacy was the chosen route for their priests, the powers that be decided that it would not look good if Jesus was married. So they removed all references of the marriage from the bible.

A good question is why WOULDN'T Jesus be married? God places a very high value on marriage and that man + woman unity, so it would be hypocritical for his son not to do it.