the body is taken to joseph s tomb and prepared for burial. when nicodemus is willing to get involved within the burial, he s supplying really, very expensive products to be used in the process of embalming the body. first century jewish law said that to touch a dead body would make you unclean, and so for joseph and nicodemus to actually go through the process of preparing jesus for burial, there had to have been tremendous love and devotion just to care for him. a rock is rolled across the entrance to seal the tomb shut. three days after the crucifixion, john and simon
the final mark on the shroud would have been made after jesus died. this blood mark is not part of a normal crucifixion, but in the case of jesus, the gospels tell us that it was delivered by a roman solider to ensure that he was dead so that his body could be released and taken down from the cross before passover. in the gospel of john, a soldier stabs jesus s dead body in the side. blood and water leak out. we see clear areas which some have hypothesized might be due to this fluid that s associated with the blood, the blood water, as the gospel says. the shroud of turin appears to be a silent witness to all the final sufferings of jesus.
john s gospel describes what happens next to jesus: and the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head. for 40 years, john jackson has been comparing the shroud of turin with descriptions of jesus death in the bible. when we come to the frontal image, we see what looked like bloodstains that are coming from essentially puncture-type sources. they correspond to what the gospels tell us happened to jesus, the crown of thorns. the purpose of the crown of thorns was to crush all jewish aspirations that they would ever have self-rule.
so what we did is take microsamples from these bloodstain areas which were then taken back to the united states for microchemical analyses, and the result was that these features are, in fact, blood. with no explanation for how the image was made and the apparent presence of blood on the cloth, jackson looked to the gospels to see whether there was a connection between the last day of jesus life and the shroud. according to the gospel of john, then pilate took jesus and had him flogged. what i think stands out the most are the many marks that are all over the cloth. to me, this looks like blood residues of a person who was whipped or scourged.
with no explanation for how the image was made and the apparent presence of blood on the cloth, jackson looked to the gospels to see whether there was a connection between the last day of jesus life and the shroud. according to the gospel of john, then pilate took jesus and had him flogged. what i think stands out the most are the many marks that are all over the cloth. to me, this looks like blood residues of a person who was whipped or scourged. everything about the passion narrative speaks about the pain,