[count-your-change]

The most telling argument against the shroud being associated with Jesus’ burial is the way Jesus’ burial with a face cloth and linen clothes being wound around Jesus’ body with a large quantity of spices and ointments being applied. (John, chapter 20)
Whatever the shroud is and where it came from it is not what the Bible describes as the clothes that covered Jesus.

[brytlea]

That argument is what really made me fairly sure it’s not His shroud. I don’t know what it is (I’m not convinced it was painted, seems like it would have been difficult to paint, especially way back). But it doesn’t fit the description in the Bible, or apparently, the practices of 1st century Jews.