For this Easter I wanted to share a Bible story, John 20 verses 3-10, where the linen burial cloth now know as the Shroud of Turin is introduced. The story is powerful indeed and is central to all of Christianity. The story from John describe what happened immediately after the resurrection. The story retells how Peter and the disciple ran swiftly to the tomb only to find the linen in the place of Jesus’ body. But what they saw must have been breathtaking. Upon seeing the empty tomb “he saw and he believed”.
John 20, Verse 3-10 (NIV)
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.
4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,
7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.
8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.
9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
In this verse you get to know the miraculous resurrection story, but there is no mention of what happens to the linen. Only from Paul, possibly in Galations 3:1 do we possibly have a biblical reference. But of course the linen is of secondary importance to the main event, the empty tomb and the resurrection.
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