text: Jewish priests were MARRIED.  John the Baptist's father, a Jewish priest, certainly was.  You don't know WHAT Jesus did before his public ministry began.  He could have been a Widower.  The Gospels don't include any information about marriage.  But Jewish customs have Jewish parents securing a wife for their sons between their seventeenth and nineteenth birthdays.  That was a DUTY of Jewish parents.  Mary and Joseph followed Jewish Law in everything else---why not here?
  
  
  Jesus never, never, never, called himself a PRIEST.  The church tagged him with this title.
  He was of the tribe of Judah, of the House of David [kings], but he was NOT a Levite nor was he of the House of Aaron.