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john the baptist's relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom higham and georges kazan have come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? >> well, this is our monstrance containing the relic. it's gilt silver and dates from about the year 1400. >> what's really exciting about the kansas baptist relic is that for the first time, we're gonna be able to compare the radiocarbon data of this particular relic with the one we've already obtained from bulgaria. >> the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. >> what's interesting about the finger is it's part of a medieval treasure, the guelph treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion.
tom higham and georges kazan have come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? >> well, this is our monstrance containing the relic. it's gilt silver and dates from about the year 1400. >> what's really exciting about the kansas baptist relic is that for the first time, we're gonna be able to compare the radiocarbon data of this particular relic with the one we've already obtained from bulgaria. >> the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. >> what's interesting about the finger is it's part of a medieval treasure, the guelph treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion. we know that he visited constantinople and requested relics, but it's possible that it may have had origins much older than that.
that amazing humility of john to know that he is about jesus and not about himself, to me, is such a witness of humility and of discipleship. >> jesus will never meet john again. but following his baptism, he takes a page from john's book and heads into the wilderness on his own journey of self-discovery. >> in the book of the prophet isaiah, it says in the wilderness, prepare the way of the lord. so they thought of that desert as wilderness and went out there to prepare for the coming of the lord. >> for 40 days and nights, he goes without food. he has been touched by god. now he must face the devil.
power. he offers him control over all the kingdoms of the world. >> worship the lord, your god, and serve only him. >> and the third temptation, he takes him to the pinnacle, the highest point, and he tells jesus to fling himself off so that he can be rescued by angels. >> it is said, do not pud the lord your god to the test. >> we know that jesus doesn't fold. if it had been me, you'd have lost me at turning stones into bread. just imagine if you could get past this temptation of hunger when you haven't eaten for days. if he could make it through that trial, all the other ones were probably a piece of cake.
>> he believes that this really is the messiah and that all of the injustice that john has witnessed in the world is about to be righted. >> confess your sins. god will see who you truly are. >> john's stinging attack on herod's immoral marriage to his brother's wife humiliates herod at court. even with john in jail, herodias is still not satisfied. she seeks revenge and demands herod deal with the outspoken prophet once and for all. >> he had criticized herod for divorcing his wife and then marrying his half-brother's wife. >> confess your sins. >> but he knew what it was really about was that he was a threat. >> prepare the way of the lord.
treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion. we know that he visited constantinople and requested relics. but it's possible that may have had origins much older than that. ♪ >> should we get the bone out and have a look at it now? >> sitting in an elaborate gilt housing dating back to the 14th century, for the researchers the challenge will be how to remove the bone from its precious casing. ♪ and when they try to extract the bone from its mount, there's a problem. >> the mount does not come off of the bone. >> oh, you mean i can't actually take the bone out? >> no. >> and that means tom will struggle to reach the central part of the finger containing collagen, the most reliable material for carbon dating.
a witness of humility and of discipleship. >> jesus will never meet john again. but following his baptism, he takes a page from john's book and heads into the wilderness on his own journey of self-discovery. >> in the book of the prophet isaiah, it says in the wilderness prepare the way of the lord. so they thought of that desert as wilderness and went out there to prepare for the coming of the lord. >> for 40 days and nights, he goes without food. he has been touched by god. now he must face the devil. >> according to the gospel of luke, the devil takes jesus aside and tempts him three different ways.