You really know nothing about First Century Jewish burial customs, do you? You are conflating EGYPTIAN burial methods with what is written quite extensively in the Mishnah and Talmud about how a Jewish Burial is to be accomplished, requiring burial before sundown on the day of death of a Jewish person. . . which literally does not allow much time to swaddle a body after cleaning, anointing, etc.. . before the sun drops below the horizon. Jesus died at about 3 PM, and sundown was at around 7:30. That meant that his friends had to get permission to take him off the cross, permission to bury him instead of leaving him to the vagaries of weather and wild animals (the usual practice), gather the spices, persuade the Roman soldiers they had permission, get the body down, pulling the nails, etc. All before 7:30 at which time Sabbath started. . . and no work could be done and the helpers had to be ritually clean before then. That's a LOT to be done in a short amount of time. They probably did not get started until at least 4PM. . . and they had to walk everywhere. Learn something about the customs before you claim something you obviously know very little about.
The one thing they WOULD have covered would have been his face, the one thing you say they did not. Again, Sheesh!
“The one thing they WOULD have covered would have been his face, the one thing you say they did not. Again, Sheesh!”
And you want to accuse me of not knowing whereof I speak.
Did John know what he was talking about?
John 19 —
“So he came and took away His body. 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about seventy-five pounds.[d] 40 Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been buried. 42 So because of the Jewish Day of Preparation, and since the tomb was nearby, they buried Jesus there.”
Because of time constraints, the only part they did not wrap was the face, and they covered it with a cloth.
Some people think that the burial wraps had formed into a cocoon, because of the procedures they used, and that was why, when Peter entered the tomb, he immediately “believed”. The cocoon was still intact.