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I disagree.......becausse the written record is the source of that verbal witness.... and as Christians we know who the author of that record is...I believe that record..and that God is the author of His written word...and that has stood the test of time and tide.

The source of the verbal witness was their sensory experience of the risen Lord about which some of the eyewitnesses wrote (as well as at least one who wasn't himself a witness). As John said, "We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth" and then later in his first letter, "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete. This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

.....”The source of the verbal witness was their sensory experience of the risen Lord about which some of the eyewitnesses wrote”......

...but that is after all how we communicate with those standing in front of us or walking along with us. They are there inperson. Again...mary did not need the cloth pieces to confirm anything...she saw the Lord...so did his followers.

Can’t hardly believe some trying to explain away the actual meeting with Christ Himself, by the hundreds, eye witnesses who saw and walked with him, the historial documents written and spoken that indeed He died..was buried..and rose again..........and yet put the weight they are if or not these cloth pieces were his or not. ....explaining these were “sensory” experiences.....I can’t stop chuckling because that is how we communicate. So then are you saying the burial cloth ...because it’s tangible....is of equal or more in value of that we have written in the scriptures?