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which were part of the Jesus Seminar, said that Jesus did not say about 80% of the words which<br />

are attributed to him in the four gospels. They claim that the words were inserted by Christians<br />

after His death. In October, 1994, the Seminar convened and decided that the virgin birth of<br />

Jesus was fabricated. One participant called it “theological fiction.” This group began working<br />

on a new Bible commentary to reflect all of its findings.<br />

The Gospel of John doesn’t mention the birth of Jesus, but it covers the conclusion of his<br />

ministry. The incident of the wedding at Cana is only mentioned in John, and is unusual in that<br />

the bride and groom are not identified, yet Jesus, His disciples, and His mother were there. When<br />

they ran out of wine, it was Jesus who performed the miracle of turning water into wine. The<br />

question was asked– why would Jesus use His divine powers for such an insignificant purpose–<br />

unless it was His own wedding. Researchers have analyzed John 2:9-10, and feel that where the<br />

head of the feast is speaking to the bridegroom, it is actually Jesus that he is addressing. It is<br />

argued that this marriage was Jesus being married to Mary Magdalene, who it is believed was the<br />

woman whom Jesus cast the demons out of, who washed and anointed the feet of Jesus, and who<br />

is identified as Mary of Bethany (sister of Lazarus and Martha). She figures heavily in the<br />

gospels, and it was to her that Jesus first revealed Himself after the Resurrection.<br />

Since the Essene law forbade marriage, Jesus may have been forced to withdraw from his<br />

relationship with her, because it would interfere with His work.<br />

The Gospel of the Ebionites (‘ebionim’ Hebrew for ‘the humble’ or ‘poor’ were purists that<br />

believed only the poor could receive Salvation, observed the Law of Moses, and considered<br />

Jesus to only be a prophet) or Gospel of the Hebrews, supposedly shed so much light on Jesus,<br />

that it was suppressed by Church leaders. In fact, all books of the Ebionite sect have<br />

mysteriously disappeared. In the Gospel of Mary, Peter says: “Sister, we know that the Saviour<br />

loved you more than the rest of women. Tell us the words of the Saviour which you remember–<br />

which you know but we do not, nor have we heard them.” The apocryphal Gospel of Philip<br />

refers to Mary as his “spouse,” and says: “There were three who always walked with the Lord;<br />

Mary his mother and her sister (Salome) and Magdalen, the one who is called His companion<br />

(partner) ... the spouse (companion) of the Saviour is Mary Magdalen ... (He) loved her more<br />

than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth.” Near the end of the book, it says:<br />

“There is the Son of Man and there is the son of the Son of Man. The Lord is the Son of Man,<br />

and the son of the Son of Man is he who is created through the Son of Man.” It was Mary<br />

Magdalene, who carried the Grail, Sangraal, or ‘Royal Blood’ to France.<br />

Around 70 AD, Mary, the wife of Jesus, took his children, and fled the Holy Land to escape<br />

the Roman destruction of Jerusalem. They made their way to a Jewish community in Provence,<br />

in southern France, where the lineage of Jesus, through marriage, was joined with the royal<br />

family of the Franks (during the 5th century, the Sicambrians, a Germanic tribe called the<br />

Franks, crossed the Rhine River into Gaul into what is now Belgium and northern France), thus<br />

creating the royal Merovingian dynasty. Within the Merovingian royal family, there were many<br />

Judaic names. It is believed that she later died at Saint Baume.<br />

It could be that the Holy Grail, ‘Sang Raal,’ or ‘Royal Blood,’ could actually represent the<br />

womb of Mary Magdalene, which produced the bloodline. It is even conjectured that French<br />

cathedrals like Notre Dame, were built in honor of Mary Magdalene, and not the mother of<br />

Jesus.<br />

In 2003, according to a novel by Dan Brown called The Da Vinci Code, the Prieuré de Sion<br />

deliberately manipulated the record of Mary’s role in the life of Jesus to spare her family from<br />

Roman Catholic leaders who sought to maintain the Biblical depiction. They used a code and

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