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Question:I can't speak for today, but relatives of Jesus, known as Desposyni, seem to have been prominent in early church leadership. These sites tell more about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desposyni
http://www.thenazareneway.com/desposyni....

And of course there's the underground tradition that Jesus was married (to Mary Magdalene, of course) and had at least one child. (Andy, was that film you mentioned called The DaVinci Code?)


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I can't speak for today, but relatives of Jesus, known as Desposyni, seem to have been prominent in early church leadership. These sites tell more about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desposyni
http://www.thenazareneway.com/desposyni....

And of course there's the underground tradition that Jesus was married (to Mary Magdalene, of course) and had at least one child. (Andy, was that film you mentioned called The DaVinci Code?)

nope

No one knows for certain Jesus had any siblings. English language words like brothers and sisters in the original Hebrew is not the same as things are in the English language.

However, to come up with a verifiable family tree that goes that far back is pretty well impossible. Verifiable, means birth, marriage and death records. A lot of the information was not recorded and much that was recorded has been destroyed. Actually most people cannot trace their ancestry before the 16th century, unless they have a royal or noble line and it can go back to the first melennium.

Surnames were not common in a good part of the world until the last melennium. In England for instance, most people had a surname by the end of the 14th century and once they got through taking or being assigned a surname, legitimate sons of the same man could each have a different surname but they could each share their surname with others with whom they were not related. It took another couple of centuries where the same surname was passed on through each generation.

There is a movie about this issue.
The last one was a woman, died and buried at the postmodern age in France.

somebody out there share's his DNA but we'll never know who and neither will they..