Shawn Ryan

So that, I think, is a fascinating... That's one of the things I learned as I did the research for the updated book.

That is fascinating.

Isn't it?

Yeah.

There were some early Christian thinkers who said, well, based on the fact that the shepherds were in the fields with their sheep at night, they said, we think Jesus was born on May 20th.

So there you go.

All right.

So on my calendar, I always mark May 20th.

I make it kind of a special day because I figure, eh, I don't want to miss it just in case.

So I've got December 25th.

I got May 20th.

Kind of a backup Christmas.

Yeah, Joseph was probably a carpenter.

Some think he was a stonecutter or both.

And a great man of faith.

He was of the line of David.

This is important because of the conception of Jesus through the line of David, even though he wasn't the biological father.

It was still through this relationship that he was born.

Joseph died fairly young.

We don't know exactly when, but all of a sudden, he's not there in the Gospels anymore.