The usual suspects — The New York Times and MSNBC — are citing a patch of 4th Century parchment identified by Karen L. King of the Harvard Divinity School as an indication that Jesus had a wife.
To her credit, Ms. King is pointing out that this is not the case.
The 4th Century is 300 years plus after the birth of Christ. To put it in perspective what the reporters are doing is no different than implying that something that was written an hour ago is definitive about the life of William Penn.
Much of the stuff from the 4th Century was kicked out of the canon that we now know as the New Testament, all of which can be sourced to the actual lifetimes of the Apostles.
And it is not as though Jesus never used a family reference in a non-literal sense.
Maybe New York Times reporters should stop looking for hidden knowledge and just become aware of the things that are in plain view.