Helen Bond
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I mean, so you get the Gospels and then, you know, other New Testament writings.
And the Jewish writer, Jewish author, Josephus, he mentions Jesus.
And he does this great long sort of history of the Jews.
And he mentions Jesus in writing in around about 93 or so.
And then you start to get Romans writing about Jesus in the early second century.
So all of that is pretty early, really.
And he's in the Quran.
He does, exactly.
Yes, that's right.
That's right.
In fact, there's more references to Mary in the Quran than there are in the New Testament.
So yeah, the two of them are quite big.
Probably not.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
Because the things about, I mean, only two gospels have birth stories, Matthew and Luke.
They're two of our later ones.
They're probably written in the later first century.
And it's just a thing, you know, ancient biography, you start your story with a great birth.
Great men need a great birth.
Yeah.