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About mary magdalene. you can see the final episode of "finding jesus" easter sunday. let's get back to our breaking news. the race for the white house and hillary clinton, just signing a lease for a campaign headquarters in brooklyn. mr. chris moody is live in washington following all the developments. what do you know? >> reporter: well she has signed a lease for an office in brook brooklyn as you just mentioned. that suggests to us the campaign announcement is coming up very soon. there are rules that say you have to announce the campaign once you engage in activities like this. i think the...

Wandering around today with sort of holy blood in them. >> now, that is some fascinating stuff. here to discuss, a professor who teaches new testament and early christianity. you just saw yourself in the clip. pretty understandable the fascination with this topic, with all the topics that the program has taken on. but what is the evidence or the argument, if you will, that they were married? >> the argument that they were married rests just on probability. it's a first century jewish man. so he was probably married. but there's no hint of that in the new testament and there's no reference to m...

Role. >> the first thing she wants to do is to hug the person she followed and loved. jesus has to tell her i'm not ready yet to be clung to. >> mary is the first one to whom the risen christ appears, so she is of immense importance to christianity. for that hour or two, she was the only one who knew about the resurrection so she was the church. >> for all her central role at the time of the resurrection mary then disappears from the story of the early church. >> one of the great mysteries of early christianity is what happened to mary magdalene

He is a professor at duke and author of the series "finding jesus." let's begin with the brothers what evidence is there that jesus had a brother or brothers. >> when you read matthew's gospel they even name them. james judas, joseph and simon. he had sisters too, but sadly, we don't nose what their names were. >> so what is, i guess what is the story behind this the box and how convinced are you that it's authentic? >> there's no question that the box itself is a genuine first century bone box. these are the boxes they put the bones in after they have rotted away. there's no question that t...

Jesus." you have suggested, i understand, the words of the brother of juices are most likely the work of a modern forger. what makes you say that? >> the first thing i would say is dramatic claims require decisive evidence. we simply don't have it here. this box did, indeed, as you stated, app on the antiquities market. and then the words brother of jesus are written in a script that is slightly different from the rest of the inscription. the depth, the clarity is different on those final words. of course, it's those words that would make this potentially significant. >> because? >> in essence...