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God has said from the beginning, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24) Just as God created woman to be with man from the beginning of time as in Adam and Eve, since it was not good for man to be alone, "Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." (Genesis 2:18). Even the prophets during the Old Testament dispensation had wives as we can see from these scriptures, "Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves." (2 Kings 4:1) Since we can see that Elisha had sons, he also had a wife to have those sons.

Ezekiel talks about the death of his wife, "So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded." (Ezekiel 24:18) Kings had wives too and in the case of some such as Solomon, many more than one. "Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, "You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods." Solomon held fast to these in love. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites. Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done." (1 Kings11: 1-6).

Just as from the beginning, God expected man to have one wife and cleave to her, "It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money." (1Timothy 3:1-3) But the Lord did not allow the "easy" divorce that was allowed during the Mosaic dispensation, "They said to Him, "Why then díd Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?" He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." (Matthew 19:7-9).

That brings us to our question, "Which apostle was known to be married?". Paul makes it very clear that he does not have a wife as he states during a very difficult period of time for Christians-but if they are married, to remain with their husband or wife, "But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband. (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife."
(1 Corinthians 7: 8-11)

So then, for the answer to our question we turn and read, "Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they spoke to Jesus about her. And He came to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and she waited on them. When evening came, after the sun had set, they began bringing to Him all who were ill and those who were demon-possessed. And the whole city had gathered at the door." (Mark 1:30-33).

So there we have the answer to our question, as it was none other than the apostle Simon Peter who had a wife!

Interestingly enough, Paul gives the idea that others were also married, "Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. My defense to those who examine me is this: Do we not have a right to eat and drink? Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?" (1 Corinthians 9:1-5)

So let us remain faithful and cleave to our spouse until death us do part! Paul also says concerning marriage, "But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth." (1Timothy 4:1-3).