text: Lela:  Before you start feeling too superior over muslims because you think Mohammed was a pedophile, you should remember that Jesus was first and foremost a Jew.  He self identified as Jewish, and had no conception of "Christianity".  He did not write or dictate the New Testament - which was written mostly based on letters and writings of his disciples.  So most of what we know about Jesus himself are things that the disciples wanted us to know, or decided that we should know - unlike Mohammad who actually dictated the Koran. Islam also has the Hadith, which is a detailed account of the sayings and life of Mohammad.  But we do know that Jewish girls during the time of Christ generally were betrothed very young - and that marriage was usually consummated  at puberty - which could be as young as 9, 10 or 11.  Almost all Jewish men of that era married - not to do so would be very unusual - so there is no reason at all to believe that Jesus did not marry a young child bride himself.