What's the shroud of Turin?

The Shrout of Turin is believed to be the actual burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth.

It's a very unique artifact because we get in this singular artifact the death, burial, and resurrection of the historical Jesus, and no other artifact does that.

What is a burial cloth?

Right. A shroud, which is mentioned in all four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is simply burial clothes. It's a linen garment that a corpse is wrapped in. And in a Jewish tradition, similar to a pita, how a pita, if you get a pita. Like pita bread? Yeah, literally. It just wraps from over your feet, over the head, and then back around the front of the feet as well.

And that is laid, that's when the body is laid to rest within the burial shroud.

That's a shroud.

That's a shroud.

Yeah. So you believe that this piece of cloth, which is represented right there, is that life, is that the actual size?

That is one to one, 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches, or 8.8 by 2 Assyrian cubits, which

was the standard unit of measurement in the Roman Empire.

Okay, so that, so the first fact we can ascertain is that this would have been,

these would have been the dimensions of a burial tract in that period.

In the first century and antiquity.

Is it a continuously woven piece of cloth? It's

one piece of cloth? It is. Pure linen. Pure linen. What is linen? A herringbone weave. It's made from

the flax plant. And this has a unique herringbone weave. The only reason I know what herringbone is

is my wife has a herringbone back splash in our home that was very costly. So it has this amazing three to one herringbone weave, which is indicative that a wealthy man would have purchased this, this actual burial garment in his own pre-death planning.

And that's exactly what we see is consistent in the resurrection traditions embedded in the gospel.

Joseph of Arimathea gives Jesus not only his own family tomb, a new tomb,

hewned in stone, but he actually gives him his own burial cloth as well.

Okay, and it says that in the gospels.

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