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War the world over. he did, however, end his easter address on a slightly lighter note asking all of those present to pray for him and wishing one and all a good easter lunch. ben wedeman, cnn, rome. >> watch the season finale of "finding jesus" at 9:00 on cnn. we're back in a moment. hey mike, it's lucy from lifelock. good news. we just learned your case is closed and your stolen retirement funds are finally being restored. lucy, wow... that 401k is two years in the mailroom ten in customer service, and the last five as sales director. that's some resume. try raising teenagers. you only have ...

>> i want to bring up the gospel of mary magdalene. let me play a clip. >> as a first century jewish man it would have been incredibly likely that jesus would have been married during his life time. >> this is high-stakes stuff. so if jesus, the son of god, was married maybe he had children. if he had that kind of an intimate relationship people want to know and if he had children that means there might be people wandering around today with holy blood in them. >> so very controversial question. was mary magdalene sort of the partner of jesus in all of this? what do we know? >> it's interesting...

Ask this -- wouldn't there be some modicum of evidence, were their marriage documents of any sort coming from that time? >> well, there were sort of marriage documents in the ancient world, usually for the healthy or the elite. but nothing like that for that jesus. there was no evidence he was married in our earliest documents. >> you call it a high-risk, high-stakes. lead us down that path of what it would mean if they had been married? that would suggest maybe there are children. >> right. the first question for christians is, what if there were children? there would be people with divine dn...

Solution, i guess. peter, thank you very much for bringing us your perspective on this. ahead for us, was jesus married with children? quite a question to be posing at this hour. what was his relationship with mary magdalene? is leading scholar weighs in on this good friday. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) the twenty-fifteen subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru.

>> another lost gospel, that of philip suggests a different reason for peter and the other disciples' apparent dislike of mary. >> all those tantalizing theories about jesus and mary magdalene being lovers jumped from this one passage. this is the juiciest stuff we've got, that there was a relationship between jesus and mary magdalene. for the most part, the missionaries were missionary couples. so it makes sense that jesus himself could have been part of a missionary couple. >> as a first century jewish man it would have been incredibly likely that jesus would have been married during his lif...