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title: World Magazine and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
canonical: "https://michaeljkruger.com/world-magazine-and-the-gospel-of-jesuss-wife/"
pubDate: "2012-10-29T10:34:26.000Z"
updatedDate: "2023-04-14T17:32:50.000Z"
author: Michael Kruger
description: "I just noticed that the most recent print edition of World Magazine had a write up on the recent \"discovery\" of the so-called Gospel of Jesus's Wife, a purportedly fourth-century Coptic gospel where Jesus refers to \"my wife.\" The online link can be found here. The World Magazine article referred to my original discussion of [...]"
tags: [Apocryphal Literature, Authority of Scripture, New Testament Canon]
---

I just noticed that the most recent print edition of World Magazine had a write up on the recent “discovery” of the so-called *Gospel of Jesus’s Wife*, a purportedly fourth-century Coptic gospel where Jesus refers to “my wife.” The online link can be found [here](http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/canon_shot).

The World Magazine article referred to my original discussion of this fragment published on the TGC website [here](http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/09/19/the-far-less-sensational-truth-about-jesus-wife/). The article picked up on one of the most critical points I was trying to make in my original discussion: “of all the known ‘gospels’ of Christ, ‘only Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are dated to the first century.'”

This is a rather simple, but often overlooked fact. And if it were remembered more often, then sensationalistic claims about early gospels would be regarded as, well, less sensational. And that would be a refreshing change.