Hi everyone. Thanks so much for your support of the Logical Bible Study Ministry. What we want to do in this bonus episode is try to respond to some of the questions that have come in and there have been quite a few questions lately, which is why we're doing a separate bonus episode. Thank you to all of those who have benefited from this podcast, have told other people

about it, and have sent your questions in. So I'm going to have a go at responding to some of these

questions as far as I'm able to. First thing I want to say is if you ever want to know anything

about the Catholic faith, the first thing you should do is check the

catechism of the Catholic Church. That is considered to be an official summary of church teaching.

It's got a dictionary and a glossary cross references in the back. So you'll often find the answer

to theological questions in there. Catholic.com, which is the Ministry of Catholic Answers,

is also really good on

general Catholic theology. But we've got a few specific kind of biblical questions that we want to

take a look at. So a question here from Cynthia, she asks, when Jesus is walking alone in the

Garden of Githsemini, or privately talking to Pontius Pilate, how did the authors of the Gospels know

what he said in order to record it? It's a really good question, and one that I've wondered sometimes

too. We can't be sure, particularly in the Gospel of John, there's quite a few conversations that

appear to be quite private, and yet somehow we have the full, what appears to be, a transcription of the conversation from the gospel author.

For example, the conversation with the woman at the well.

Supposedly, all the other disciples are gone, and it's just Jesus and the woman.

So how does that end up in the gospel?

Same with this conversation between Jesus and Pontius Pilate.

With the one, the conversation between Jesus and Pontius Pilate, it's a little bit easier

to answer that because in a so-called private conversation between Jesus and Pilot, it's likely

that Pilot would still have people in the room with him, servants, guards, some of

whom may well have become Christian later and who relayed the story to the gospel authors.

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