Expert: Dean Gade - 3/15/2009

Question
QUESTION: Who were the people that personally witnessed the death of Jesus on the cross?

ANSWER: There were many unnamed people at the crucifixion among the crowd of soldiers, religious leaders, and other onlookers.  But those named are as being there at the time are:

Mary Magdalene,  Jesus' mother, Simon, Salome and Mary the mother of Clopes.

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QUESTION: Who exactly is Clopes

ANSWER: Names are sometimes confusing in history because we are dealing with Greek, Aramaic, Roman and sometimes other names given to the same people (like Simon was named Peter).   Clopos or cloephas was also the  
Alphaeus who is one of Jesus disciples.



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QUESTION: I'm facinated by the words in a prayer and possibly in the bible that are these word  quote "In the begginning" unquote.  I must ask when did the begginning began and what happened before the begginning.fyatp

Answer
It is probably best to think of "in the beginning" as meaning "when time, as man knows it, came about"

Before that was what we call "infinity" and we can only give that a name so we know what we are all talking about....without any real ability to understand it.