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    29. Ibid., 104. Carbo specifically referred to a reference by Jesus from Luke 7:9 rsv (“I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith”). Also see Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 78.
    30. Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 78.
    31. Record of a pilgrimage by Aetheria, quoted by Peter the Deacon ( AD 381–384). The quote appears in Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 110.
    32. “We come to Capernaum into the house of St. Peter, which is a basilica.” Anonymous of Piacenza, in ad 570; quoted in Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 110.
    33. Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 107–9. The floors of other houses located around the one identified with Peter were of beaten earth or basalt pebbles; in this house the floors were treated with crushed limestone, and its walls were constantly replastered and decorated, evidencing special attention throughout many centuries, back to the first century.
    34. Ibid., 109; also see Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 8.
    35. Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 109–10; also see Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence, 79. In the fourth century a new ceiling and additional rooms were added, and the venerated room appears to have begun to be used as a church.
    36. Revised from a compilation in Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 81.
    37. Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 82–83.
    38. Ibid.
    39. Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 156–62.
    40. Pictures and a description of the excavations are contained in Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament, 158.
    41. Ibid., 159.
    42. Ibid., 81–82.
    43. Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 82.
    44. The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible, New American Standard, 2,079.
    45. Walter E. Rast, Through the Ages in Palestinian Archaeology (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992), 134; also see John Rogerson and Philip Davies, “Siloam Tunnel,” Archaeology , September 1996, vol. 59, no. 3; “Rejoinder to Rogerson & Davies,” Archaeology , December 1996, vol. 59, no. 4.
    46. Josephus, Wars of the Jews, book 5, chap. 5(6), in The Complete Works of Josephus, 555.
    47. Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 109–11.
    48. Ibid., 112.
    49. Ibid., 112–13.
    50. Eusebius, “Onomasticon,” in Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 175.
    51. Account of the pilgrim, Aetheria (381–384) in Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament, 178.
    52. Ibid., 181.
    53. Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 123.
    54. Silberman, “Searching for Jesus,” Archaeology , 38. Also see Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 106–7.
    55. Silberman, “Searching for Jesus,” Archaeology , 38. Also see Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence, 108, 119.
    56. The first reference is in Antiquities of the Jews , book 18, chap. 2 (2), in The Complete Works of Josephus, 378. The second reference is in Antiquities of the Jews , book 18, chap. 4(3), in The Complete Works of Josephus , 381.
    57. Silberman, “Searching for Jesus,” Archaeology , 38.
    58. Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament , 138–39; Silberman, “Searching for Jesus,” Archaeology , 40.
    59. Keller, The Bible as History , 347.
    60. Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 35.
    61. Silberman, “Searching for Jesus,” Archaeology , 40; also see Charlesworth, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 279.
    62. Belief that the evidence indicated a final coup de gr â ce was published by N. Haas in 1970 in the original publication of the findings. This position is also supported by Wilson, in Jesus: The Evidence, 30. In Charlesworth, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls , however, Charlesworth has stated his own opinion that the breaks in the leg were due to the passage of time rather than to a single strong blow.
    63. Special Communication, William D. Edwards, M.D.; Wesley J. Gabel, M.Div.; Floyd E. Mosmer, M.S., AMI. “On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ,” Journal of the American Medical Association (March 21, 1986), vol. 255, no. 11, 1,455-63. (Dr. Edwards is a physician at the Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic,