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really cool Joseph of Eremathia seems like a dude who was principled and generous and willing to put his name

and his reputation and his money on the line for what he thought was right.

This guy, when it was very unfashionable to like Jesus, I mean it had been fashionable

to like Jesus in the city of Jerusalem, like we had less than a week earlier, but that was like a week

ago, bro, now Jesus, like that was like a week ago, bro.

Now Jesus, like that's not somebody you want to have your name next to.

Joseph of Verimuthia though, he liked Jesus when it was cool and he liked Jesus when it was cool

and he liked Jesus when it wasn't cool.

And I think we all respect somebody like that.

And so then Joseph Verimuthia goes to Pontius Pilate and is like,

I want that body.

The body of that man who's an outcast and rejected, I will identify with him, and

Pilots like, yeah, find whatever shirt great.

And because of that little story, we rightly hold Joseph of Verimythia in high regard.

But as so often the case when somebody's real, real exceptional and cool in real life and in reality,

myths and legends and all sorts of other things get attributed to such

people after the fact and it can take a little bit of work to sort through what is

real and what is bonus material.

Fan fiction, well Joseph Verimuthia, as we discussed yesterday,

he got a lot of fan fiction associated with him,

dating all the way up to very very recent times with popular movies and

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