I was talking yesterday about these wonderful people I know named Kim and Kim

Mr Kim and Mrs Kim Kimberly they married, they both go by Kim.

Then you can tell them apart real easy,

because one looks like a lady and a mom.

The other one's got a real bushy mustache.

They were always good sports.

I mean, come on, they know their first names

with the same name. They'd always play along with the joke as well. It is really

easy to say confusing things about your interactions with them and be like, well, you know, I was talking with Kim,

asking if Kim was around and Kim said that Kim would be around a little later.

So I swung by to check in on Kim and Kim and Kim and see how Kim was doing.

Likewise, you can kind of do the same thing

with the name Mary in the New Testament.

I think we got about five

that we can say for sure are distinct Mary's

in the New Testament. I'm just gonna to scrub through a list that I put together

here and we'll see how many exactly we can come up with and if we can get them straight.

But what prompts the conversation is that we're in Matthew 27 and Jesus has just died on the cross. the a reliable witness, somebody who would be biased against Jesus theoretically, but he sees

what's happened and the people are with him and they're like, whoa, surely he was the son of

God. So that's what a reliable witness looks like and then right after that

Matthew gives us another list of reliable witnesses starting in verse 55.

Many women were there watching from a distance they'd followed Jesus from

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