Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast and when I used to live

out in Western Wyoming I had some friends there a couple who had the exact same name.

Their names are Kim and Kim just absolutely wonderful people, great parents, great kids,

super fun and but I mean they had the same name, right?

So that gets a little bit disorienting.

You could tell them apart, because Kim was the one with the gigantic masculine Western Marlboro man style mustache and then Kim was the one who

didn't have a mustache. So you always knew who you were talking to but that could be

a little bit disorienting and just as a circle of friends and in our

community you would often have to clarify like Mr Kim Mrs Kim or like that, because they had the same name.

What are the odds, right?

Each of those two people found the love of their life and it turned out to be somebody

with the exact same name.

It's crazy.

Likewise, when we're working through the Bible, there's certain chunks where certain names become

a little bit ambiguous because it's the same name that a lot of other people had.

James is certainly one of those names. Any anytime you talk about the New Testament and

James you have to disambiguate a little bit because there were a lot of those James's

around but the big one is Mary because apparently Mary was a very very popular name during Bible times and

indeed because of the legacy of not just one of the Marys but all of the Marys of the Bible

continues to be a very popular name for me all of history since then.

So when we get to the end of the crucifixion account in Matthew 27 and it gives us a quick rundown of the women who were witnesses there which I mean we'll talk about the significance of even giving us a list or even

acknowledging that women were there in just a minute we discover that it's a whole

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