Original sentence: The Jesus bloodline (not to be confused with the genealogy of Jesus) is a theory that Jesus Christ had a natural child with Mary Magdalene which was then taken to Egypt and then to France, either during Magdalene's pregnancy or as a young child, and whose blood descendants in later centuries founded the Merovingian dynasty of the early kings of France.The bloodline theory is not contained in any of the Priory of Sion documents and was dismissed as fiction by Pierre Plantard in 1982 on a French radio interview.The notion that a person living today has a small number of ancestors from millennia ago is statistically incorrect.This theory was popularized by the publication in 1982 of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln and the publication in 2003 of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Edited sentence: How can you prove a lineage of four centuries from Jesus to the Merovingians.I have never put myself forward as a descendant of Jesus Christ" (Jacques Pradel radio interview on 'France-Inter', 18 February 1982).In addition, the notion that a person living today has a small number of ancestors from millennia ago is statistically incorrect.Quoting Pierre Plantard: "I admit that 'The Sacred Enigma' (French title for 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail') is a good book, but one must say that there is a part that owes more to fiction than to fact, especially in the part that deals with the lineage of Jesus.The Jesus bloodline (not to be confused with the genealogy of Jesus) is the modern theory devoid of historical sources that Jesus Christ had a natural child with Mary Magdalene which was then taken to Egypt and then to France, either during Magdalene's pregnancy or as a young child, and whose blood descendants in later centuries founded the Merovingian dynasty of the early kings of France.The bloodline theory is not contained in any of the Priory of Sion documents, it must be stressed and in 1982 on a French radio interview Pierre Plantard distanced himself from the central theory in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.This theory has become especially popular amongst the Alternative History Fringe Communities since the publication in 1982 of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln and the publication in 2003 of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown