himself that very hour, or that he—in a literal translation—took her “to his own that very hour.” Various Bible translations say that he took her “to his own home,” but that isn’t in the original text. If you have been to Ephesus, in Asia Minor, you can see a house where John is supposed to have brought Mary to live with him after the Resurrection, even though there is not the slightest evidence of it. This interpretation is now generally agreed to have little or no foundation in the text of the