[count-your-change]

“Peter testifies that the wrappings were still in the shape of a man”.

Where do the Gospel accounts say this, please?

” The first thing before taking his body down that Joseph and the women would have done is lay a long linen cloth down upon which the body would be placed onhalf and the remainder brought up and over the body. As the body is being taken down, a cloth would have been placed over the dead face/death mask and would have remained there until the body is cleansed and the spices applied.”

John 19:38,40 Luke 23:53 Mark 15:46 Matt. 27:59, Each say simply that Joseph took the body down, wrapped it in linen and laid it in the tomb. John adds that spices were included in the wrapping.

So where do you find the description of folding a cloth over Jesus?

[MHGinTN]

I was describing the Jewish traditional method for dealing with a dead person, as in one died in combat, with the long linen cloth. Read the Greek carefully which describes the episode where John and Peter hurry to the tomb and John gets there first (he's younger and more agile), then Peter describes what he sees when he arrives and looks in ...

[MHGinTN]

Peter uses a phrasing which would be used to describe—for instance—someone being left alone from being accompanied earlier. The wrappings were abandoned in tact, and another folded linen to the head or foot of the abandoned, empty wrappings.

[MHGinTN]

BTW, here is the sentence without the parenthesis which may have confused you:

"Peter testifies that the wrappings were still in the shape of a man and folded cloth lay separately ... with the words he chose to use in describing what he saw when he looked into the grotto."