Jacobovici has unveiled yet another historic find \u2013 he has also uncovered the original Jesus fish, also made from crucifixion nails<\/a>.\u00a0Bob Cargill provided the photographic evidence below. Bob\u00a0seems to believe that these also served as wedding rings for Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but I dispute his interpretation of the artifacts\u00a0\u2013 personally I suspect that they were more likely used as bumper stickers by the happy couple.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2016\/04\/The-original-Jesus-fish-discovered.jpg\")
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In news that would be surprising if it were about any other \u201carchaeologist\u201d than Simcha Jacobovici,\u00a0it has just been revealed that Jacobovici has unveiled yet another historic find \u2013 he has also uncovered the original Jesus fish, also made from crucifixion nails.\u00a0Bob Cargill provided the photographic evidence below. Bob\u00a0seems to believe that these also served […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":37355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[2322,3455,5677,5681,7043,7877,10416,10800,11303,13621],"class_list":["post-34225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archaeology","category-humor","tag-crucifixion","tag-fish","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-fish","tag-married","tag-nails","tag-rings","tag-satire","tag-simcha-jacobovici","tag-wedding"],"yoast_head":"\n
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