Celibacy

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I hope that you will forgive my lack of knowledge.

According to the Holy Bible, how many of the phophets were married?

According to the Holy Bible, how many of the apostles were married?

I want to thank you for your help.

Also, concerning people such as John the Baptist, Mary and Martha, how many of the New Testament personages were explicitly stated to be married?

Saint Peter was married. St. Paul was not.

Hosea was married, but how about the other prophets?

St. John the Baptist seems not be have been married.

Is celibacy in the Holy Bible (at least some form of it)?

Is monasticism in the Holy Bible (at least some form of it)?

Again, I want to thank you for your help.
 
Jim Baur:
Is celibacy in the Holy Bible (at least some form of it)?
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Sorry to be brief on all your questions, but I’m just taking off from work 😛

Hopefully this will hold you over until someone else pops online:

1 Corinthians 7:
7 Indeed, I wish everyone to be as I am, but each has a particular gift from God, [5](http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/1corinthians/1corinthians7.htm#foot5) one of one kind and one of another. 8 [6](http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/1corinthians/1corinthians7.htm#foot6) Now to the unmarried and to widows, I say: it is a good thing for them to remain as they are, as I do, Josh
 
I hope that you will forgive my lack of knowledge.

According to the Holy Bible, how many of the phophets were married?

According to the Holy Bible, how many of the apostles were married?

I want to thank you for your help.

Also, concerning people such as John the Baptist, Mary and Martha, how many of the New Testament personages were explicitly stated to be married?

Saint Peter was married. St. Paul was not.

Hosea was married, but how about the other prophets?

St. John the Baptist seems not be have been married.

Is celibacy in the Holy Bible (at least some form of it)?

Is monasticism in the Holy Bible (at least some form of it)?

Again, I want to thank you for your help.
 
Jim Baur:
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Jim,

Hosea’s ministry pretty much circled around his relationship with his wife and her relationship with him.

Isaiah mentions having a wife and children.

I don’t know that any of the other prophets are mentioned in either direction.
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The Gospels (at least one of them) mentions Peter’s mother-in-law; therefore Peter was married at one point. I don’t think there is any record of whether he was a widower when Jesus called him; there isn’t any record of his wife in the Bible. So although people like to use Peter’s wife as an argument against priestly celibacy, it doesn’t necessarily wash.
Also, concerning people such as John the Baptist, Mary and Martha, how many of the New Testament personages were explicitly stated to be married?

Saint Peter was married. St. Paul was not.
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Is celibacy in the Holy Bible (at least some form of it)?
Yes. Matthew 19:12 mentions people who have renounced marriage; I Corinthians 7:7 also touches on the topic.
Is monasticism in the Holy Bible (at least some form of it)?
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The Carmelites trace their origins back to Elijahs “schools of prophets” (II Kings 2, the New American Bible translates the word as “guilds”) which they interpret as being akin to monasteries.
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…The Gospels (at least one of them) mentions Peter’s mother-in-law; therefore Peter was married at one point. I don’t think there is any record of whether he was a widower when Jesus called him; there isn’t any record of his wife in the Bible. So although people like to use Peter’s wife as an argument against priestly celibacy, it doesn’t necessarily wash…
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actually this isn’t entirely correct. although not mentioned by name, it seems that all of the apostles (except paul and maybe barnanbas) were married and their wives travelled with them in their ministries.
** 1Co 9:5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? **
 
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bengal_fan:
actually this isn’t entirely correct. although not mentioned by name, it seems that all of the apostles (except paul and maybe barnanbas) were married and their wives travelled with them in their ministries.
** 1Co 9:5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?**
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Bengal Fan,

You are so right! I stand corrected.
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Thanks to all of the above.

Saint John the Baptist?

The prophets?

Any furhter help.

Again, thank you for your help and information!!!
 
john the baptist was unmarried as he had taken the vow of a nazarite (and yes, i know samson did also and he got married, but that was one of his downfalls as all of the judges had a problem). nazarites, if unmarried, could not get married as long as their vow was in effect (paul took this vow for a while), if they were married, they could not have marital relations while the vow was in effect.

some of the prophets were married and others weren’t. read the scriptures and it will tell you who. i believe elijah was unmarried, isaiah was married, samuel…unmarried, elisha…i have heard was married but i can’t confirm that. the minor prophets…i don’t think we know…maybe jewish tradition could tell us.
 
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