https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene >Ehrman states that the historical sources reveal absolutely nothing about Jesus's sexuality[316] and that there is no evidence whatsoever to support the idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married or that they had any kind of sexual or romantic relationship.[316] None of the canonical gospels imply such a thing[317] and, even in the late Gnostic gospels, where Mary is shown as Jesus's closest disciple,[317] the relationship between them is not sexual.[317] The extremely late Greater Questions of Mary, which has not survived, allegedly portrayed Mary not as Jesus's wife or partner, but rather as an unwilling voyeur.[122] Ehrman says that the Essenes, a contemporary Jewish sect who shared many views with Jesus, and the apostle Paul, Jesus's later follower, both lived in unmarried celibacy,[295] so it is not unreasonable to conclude that Jesus did as well.[295] >Furthermore, according to Mark 12:25, Jesus taught that marriage would not exist at all in the coming kingdom of God.[318] Since Jesus taught that people should live as though the kingdom had already arrived, this teaching implied a life of unmarried celibacy.[319] Ehrman says that, if Jesus had been married to Mary Magdalene, the authors of the gospels would definitely have mentioned it, since they mention all his other family members, including his mother Mary, his father Joseph, his four brothers, and his at least two sisters.[320] >Maurice Casey rejects the idea of Mary Magdalene as Jesus's wife as nothing more than wild popular sensationalism.[296] Jeffrey J. Kripal writes that "the historical sources are simply too contradictory and simultaneously too silent" to make absolute declarations regarding Jesus' sexuality.[321]