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Sacred music for the season of Lent, Lutheran Public Radio.org. A lot of, quote-unquote, extra people, people who don't have speaking lines are mentioned in

Holy Scripture.

They're sometimes just names on a list, like in Romans 16.

Paul has a long list of people that he is greeting as he writes to the Roman Church.

We know who some of them are, but not others.

And then there are people who are mentioned in the New Testament Gospels.

Can we know anything more about them and has archaeological discovery shed any light on them and

the gospels that mention them.

Welcome back to Issues, etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about an archaeological discovery that sheds light on Luke's gospel,

Shane Rosenthal, he formerly served as executive producer of the White Horse Inn.

He's creator, host, and producer of

the Humble Skeptic Podcast, and author of the forthcoming book titled Luke's Key Witness.

Shane, welcome back.

Great to be back with you, Todd.

We often see these non-central characters named briefly in the New Testament Gospels, and we simply assume that they're lost to history

with regard to us. We can't learn anything more about them. Is that true? Well, this is a difficult

thing for a lot of Bible study folks. You know, you're reading through your Bible. You see these

things in the background. And because Jesus is such a centrally important figure, he hogs every scene, you don't, A, give a lot of thought who these people are. And if you do, in fact, I was on an airplane once with this young guy heading to Camp Pendleton for military service. And he was reading the New Testament.

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