Jesus Christ was a married man, according to an ancient script.The previously unknown 1,700-year-old fragment of papyrus is said to quote him referring to a wife.US expert Karen King said it is the only text to suggest a marriage — as in hit book The Da Vinci Code.The excerpt, written in ancient Egyptian Coptic, reads: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife — she will be able to be my disciple’.”It appears to add: “I dwell with her.”The woman is thought to be his disciple Mary Magdalene, said by some to have been a repentant prostitute.The belief that Jesus never married gave rise to the celibate priesthood in the Catholic church.Harvard professor Ms King believes the text is a copy of a gospel probably written in Greek in the second century.She said: “Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married — even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim.”However, she stressed that the newly-found script did not prove for certain that Jesus was married.Bible scholar Ben Witherington also urged caution.He said texts of the period used “the language of intimacy” for spiritual relationships.