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announcement by a young man (implicitly an angel messenger) that he has risen from the dead. In that case, presumably the original manuscript would not have included descriptions of postresurrection visits included in the other Gospels, although it would have contained an announcement of the resurrection. However, other scholars believe the original Gospel included the more extensive ending generally given in modern Bibles, and some support for that is found in some of the early manuscripts which do, in fact, contain an ending with postresurrection reports. See Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament, 148.
    16. For a general discussion of the topical arrangements, see Darrell L. Bock, “The Words of Jesus in the Gospels: Live, Jive, or Memorex?,” in Jesus Under Fire , ed. Michael J. Wilkins and J. P. Moreland (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995), 84–89.
    17. Greenleaf, Testimony of the Evangelists , 22–23.
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    1. Strong, McCormick on Evidence , 4th ed., vol. 2, Section 339; 436.
    2. Greenleaf, Testimony of the Evangelists , 31.
    3. Strong, McCormick on Evidence , vol. 1, Section 34, 111, n 1 (quoting Tribe, “Triangulating Hearsay,” 87 Harv. L. Rev . 957, 1974).
    4. The book of Acts and many other writings of the New Testament chronicle Peter’s position as a leader of the early church. Writings of Eusebius also refer to the leadership of Peter throughout the entire area, and Polycarp’s succession to that position at Smyrna in Asia during this turbulent time. For an interesting and full discussion, see McBirnie, The Search for the Twelve Apostles, 52–67.
    5. Pietro Zander, The Necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican (Fabbrica di San Pietro in Vaticano, 2009).
    6. Federal Rules of Evidence 404(a) and 608; see Notes of Advisory Committee on Proposed Rules to Rule 608(a) regarding the exception under Rule 404(a) for admissibility of character evidence of a witness as bearing upon his or her credibility; also see Strong, McCormick on Evidence, vol. 1, Section 187.
    7. Federal Rule of Evidence 405(b).
    8. Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b). Also see the discussion in Notes of Advisory Committee on Proposed Rules for Rule 608.
    9. Compton v. Davis Oil Co., 607 F. Supp. 1221, 1228, 1230 (D.C. Wyoming. 1985). Here the court stated that it was persuaded of the truth of recitals contained in a death certificate introduced into evidence under the ancient document exception concerning a common-law marriage because the conduct of the heirs of the married couple and declarations of relatives regarding their marital status over the course of many years was fully consistent with such recitals.
    10. Federal Rule of Evidence 405(a).
    11. Ignatius, “Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians,” in Coxe, The Ante-Nicene Fathers , vol. I, 70.
    12. Ibid.
    13. Rex v. Woodcock , 1 Leach 500, 168 Eng. Rep. 352 (K.B. 1789); see Strong, McCormick on Evidence, vol. 2; Section 310, 325–31.
    14. Greenleaf, Testimony of the Evangelists , 33.
    15. Federal Rule of Evidence 601.
    16. Ibid.
    17. Neil Asher Silberman, “Searching for Jesus,” Archaeology , November–December 1994, vol. 4, 30–40.
    18. William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke , rev. ed. (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975), 52.
    19. Frederick T. Zugibe, The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Forensic Inquiry (Lanham, MD: M. Evans & Company, 2005), 12–14.
    20. This aspect of the nature of Jesus is noted by Wilson, in Jesus: The Evidence , 54–55.
    21. Werner Keller, The Bible as History (New York: William Morrow, 1981), 323–24; also see William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975), 20.
    22. Papyrus first-century census forms have been found indicating the census was required every fourteen years. John McRay, Archeology & the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008), 154–55; see also Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence , 48. The Roman census order was found in Egypt and dates from ad 104 during the reign of the