use limestone vessels because limestone vessels did not contract or convey ritual purity like ceramic. limestone was preferred for storing water, for cooking, for drinking, and so on. >> could the family who owned these limestone vessels have been the family of jesus? mary and joseph's piety is revealed in the gospel of luke in the only story in the new testament of jesus' childhood. >> now his parents went to jerusalem every year for the feast of the passover. and when he became 12, they went up there according to to the custom of the feast. >> the fact that the family of jesus regularly going to jerusalem for passover suggests that what we've got here is a pious family who has the history to the hebrew bible. >> the journey from the galilee to jerusalem on passover would have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 miles, and