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about this ring is that perhaps he gave it to one of his administrators. and it's maybe like his seal, so I think yes, Pontius Pilate definitely existed, he had disciples, Jesus had disciples, no, pontuous pilot, yes, we all know about the 12 disciples, of course, which represent the 12 renewed tribes of Israel and these are 12. men but it seems to me that Jesus had much more than that we learned from women who also walked with him and were part of this internal group and That makes a lot of sense because if the disciples go out to spread the message, the men can easily go and talk to other men, but men would have found it much more difficult to talk to women, go to women's areas in houses or talk to women while cleaning by streams and things like that, so I think that also They would have needed many female disciples just to spread the message, so I think Jesus had many disciples, 12 in particular, but not just them.

Jesus married Mary Magdalene, well the thing is we don't really know anything about Jesus' marital status, it's quite possible he had a wife when he was younger, if so I think he probably left her in Galilee or something. Once she died, we just don't know for sure. When Jesus begins his ministry, I think it would be very unlikely that he would have a wife. He is telling people to prepare for the kingdom of God, which is going to burst into people's lives very, very soon, and God is going to transform the world. It's not really the kind of conversation that you hear from someone who has a wife and doesn't really encourage people to get married, have kids, calm down, the whole kind of message from his um, his message is, you know, get ready because the world It's going to end, that's not it. someone who is getting married and I know that Mary Magdalene is often given that leading role as the wife of Jesus Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus the strange thing about Mary Magdalene is that she barely appears in the gospels, yes we know that she is one of the followers of Jesus and um along with other women and in the gospel of John she goes down to the empty tomb and has a vision of the resurrected Jesus, but there is absolutely nothing in that that gives the impression that she is the wife of Jesus, who is she, dear?

That's Mary Magdalene, the prostitute, she wasn't. There is also no impression that she is a prostitute, which is the other job she is often associated with and that is all a much later development, so I don't think there is any evidence that Jesus married Mary Magdalene. Was he a carpenter? Well, this is interesting. This translates a Greek word that can mean carpenter, it can also mean stonemason or builder, so it's kind of like a skilled craftsman. My personal favorite, actually, is that he was a boat builder and I think that's why the Sea of ​​Galilee was so home to him and why his first followers were all fishermen, um, but that's a little specific, but not too much.

People think he was a shipbuilder, where is his grave? Ah well, no one knows that there is a tomb in the Holy Seiler. Church in Jerusalem that was found in the early 4th century and is a first century tomb, but we don't really know. I mean, it would be highly unlikely that it's actually Jesus' tomb. It was found by Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine. There is another. Alternative tomb in Jerusalem also the garden tomb um and that has been very

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since the 19th century, particularly among Protestants who don't like all the gold and everything that is found in the Holy Seiler, but this is definitely not your tomb, it's a very old Tomb, it's from the Iron Age and it doesn't seem to fit with what we know about the tomb of Jesus through the gospels, so the difficulty is that we don't really know, we don't even know if it's true that I had this. a type of melum that belongs to José de Aramia.

I think it's quite natural that the gospel writers and early Christians would want to imagine that Jesus had a nice, proper burial, but for all we know, it might actually have been a pretty shallow grave somewhere you know the kind of place. burial which is more likely to have had someone who has been executed in any case it is quite interesting that we do not have any veneration for the tomb of Jesus, we did not hear any of that in the early church, in what other religions does Jesus appear? Well, this is not my special area, I have to say, but I know that he is actually a pretty important character in the Quran, where he is a prophet, and in the end he is not crucified.

It's kind of a dodge in the Quran in a way, but then, he's held in high regard in that work and I'm not sure it's in any other religion other than Jesus was a very naughty boy, well, I guess. some people here have been uh listening uh the life of Brian now you listen here he is not the Messiah, he is a very naughty boy now go away, he is not the Messiah, he is a very naughty boy in some ways, although in reality he was or at least We have some infancy gospels called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and they tell us all kinds of stories that supposedly have to do with the childhood of Jesus, so they are filling that gap between the birth of Jesus and the only story that We have about the childhood of Jesus in the gospel of Luke when he was 12 years old.

He is really very naughty, he kills other children and is very rude to his teachers, in the end no one wants to teach him and the people of the town of Nazareth ask Joseph and Mary to take him away, they say that because he is killing our children and it is very difficult to know what to make of this text why Jesus is so naughty the power of God but the mentality of a child and perhaps one of the things in this text is that he gradually commands learns to control his divine nature, so that the last The story we see is that of Jesus in the temple with the teachers of the law and at that stage he has already learned to live with his divine nature, but if you want some stories about Jesus as a very naughty child then the gospel of infancy The gospel of Thomas is the place to look so that's the end of the

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