[ALS]

Sorry to burst your bubble but the custom in those days was to wrap in STRIPS of linen, not a sheet.

John 19:40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

The "shroud" is just another fill the pews hoax.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Among these "clothes" were a strip that was placed lengthwise up the front of the body, over the head, and down the back of the body. That would fit the description of the Shroud.

By the way, I can understand the Catholic reticence to identify the Shroud of Turin as actually having been among the graveclothes used on Jesus. In that tradition, there are several reported miracles of imprintation on an object by a saint who obviously wasn't physically pressed against the object. How do they know this isn't another case of the same thing?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Sorry to burst your bubble but Scripture says otherwise and doesn't mention STRIPS of linen.

Matthew 27:59 "And Joseph taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth."

Mark 15:46 "And Joseph buying fine linen, and taking him down, wrapped him up in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of a rock. And he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre."

Luke 23:53 "And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid."

John 19:40 "They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury."

The "shroud" is just another fill the pews hoax.

Nothing but speculation on your part.

[Swordmaker]

"Sorry to burst your bubble but the custom in those days was to wrap in STRIPS of linen, not a sheet.

Not true.

This fallacy comes from the wrappings of Egyptian mummies and does not transfer to burial practices in the Levant.

You can make no conclusions about the Biblical text based on the English translation of first century writings.