Ossuary

Inscription on Ossuary May Name Man Who Helped Carry Jesus' Cross A 2,000-year-old limestone bone box found in a Jerusalem tomb may carry the name of the son of the man who helped Jesus carry his cross, according to a New Testament scholar who has revisited its long-debated inscription.

The ushery, found in a rock-cut family tomb in the Kidron Valley in 1941, is scratched in Greek with the words Alexander, son of Simon, the same father and son pairing recorded in the Gospel of Mark.

Dr. Jeremiah Johnston, author of the Jesus Discoveries, now believes the evidence tips towards a genuine link.

The evangelist named Simon's sons, Alexander and Rufus, as though his first readers would have known them.

It is the kind of small, checkable detail that early Christianity left scattered across the region's archaeology.

Ossuary inscription that reads Alexander, son, of Simon, argued to be referring to Simon of Cyrene, who helped carry Jesus' cross.

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a tomb sealed for 2,000 years.

Is the word ossuary to be used here?

Mm, ossuary, I think.

Ossuary.

I'm not sure how it's pronounced.

But yeah, the ossuary is where you bury people and they rot away.

Osmore.

Ossuary, I think.

Oh.

We figured out? No, we haven't figured this one out.