[sparklite2]

Who knew Jesus was Luke the Spook?

[QBFimi]

Ecce homo

[Mrs. Don-o]

bfl

[antidemoncrat]

Quite a difference in his beard between the Shroud of Turin and this one.

[Swordmaker]

The veil of Manoppello has been pretty conclusively been shown to be a painting, a self-portrait, done by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, painted on Byssus, the most expensive cloth in the world.

Byssus is a fiber harvested from a sea urchin from which a very diaphanous cloth may be woven and which during the First Century was, by Law, reserved for Royalty. It is highly unlikely that anyone on the Via de la Rosa, least of all someone whose name is derived from the words that translate from the Latin words "vera ikon" meaning "true image," would have been royalty in possession of a Byssus veil to press to Jesus’ face. It is much more likely that a fairly wealthy woman would have pressed her fine Linen veil to Jesus’ face, a Linen cloth that much more matches the Mandyllion Veil kept at the Vatican which the Legend of the Manoppello veil claims was stolen and replaced and the original is now the Manoppello veil.

However, there are extant letters between Raphael and fellow artist Albrecht Dürer in which both discussed experimented with creating double-sided self-portraits on Byssus and sending examples to each other. The image on the Manoppello veil is the spitting image of Raphael at the age these letters were being sent. . .

Veil of Manoppello

[SkyPilot]

Ray Dowling and his team's computer image of the face of Christ, based on years of research and using the Shroud of Turin as the baseline.

[metmom]

Jesus was beaten to within an inch of His life and Scripture alludes to His bread being plucked out, or ripped out as the case may be.

Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.

Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—

I highly doubt someone who was just crucified would look so good.

[HiTech RedNeck]

For some folks, the Spirit will use this — the image of the Christ who suffered and died on the Cross — to speak faith to their souls. And yet, “Blessed are they who have believed and yet have not seen.” God understands what kind of witness we need.