By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI confirmed his intention to
visit the Shroud of Turin when it goes on public display in Turin's
cathedral April 10-May 23, 2010.
According to tradition, the 14-foot-by-4-foot linen cloth is the burial
shroud of Jesus. The shroud has a full-length photonegative image of a
man, front and back, bearing signs of wounds that correspond to the
Gospel accounts of the torture Jesus endured in his passion and death.
The church has never officially ruled on the shroud's authenticity,
saying judgments about its age and origin belonged to scientific
investigation. Scientists have debated its authenticity for decades,
and studies have led to conflicting results.
A recent study by French scientist Thierry Castex has revealed that on
the shroud are traces of words in Aramaic spelled with Hebrew letters.
A Vatican researcher, Barbara Frale, told Vatican Radio July 26 that
her own studies suggest the letters on the shroud were written more
than 1,800 years ago.
She said that in 1978 a Latin professor in Milan noticed Aramaic
writing on the shroud and in 1989 scholars discovered Hebrew characters
that probably were portions of the phrase "The king of the Jews."
Castex's recent discovery of the word "found" with another word next to
it, which still has to be deciphered, "together may mean 'because
found' or 'we found,'" she said.
What is interesting, she said, is that it recalls a passage in the
Gospel of St. Luke, "We found this man misleading our people," which
was what several Jewish leaders told Pontius Pilate when they asked him
to condemn Jesus. MORE>>>>>>>>>>>>
Comment by Bob Barney; The Plain Truth.Com
The shroud is not the burial cloth of Christ, and does not fit into the gospel accounts. First, Christ did not have long hair (I know everyone see’s those pictures of him with long hair, but he did not! If you want Biblical proof – e-mail me!) Jewish burial customs that several pieces of cloth bound Christ at His burial — not one large sheet like the shroud. In John 20:5-7 we find there was a separate piece wrapped around Christ’s head. Yet the Shroud of Turin depicts a face on the sheet. The size of the shroud is 14 feet 3 inches by 3 feet 7 inches (434 centimetres by 109 centimetres). But the Bible says linen strips bound Jesus, not an enormous cloth (see John 19:40).
The verses that tell of Joseph of Arimathea’s wrapping Jesus in linen cloth are Matthew 27:59, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:53, and John 19:40. Look in Vine’s Expository Dictionary, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, and the Ryrie Study Bible. They all tell us the Greek words used in Matthew, Mark, and Luke (entulisso and eneileo) mean “to roll in, wind in”, “to twist, to entwine”, “to enwrap”, “to wrap by winding tightly”. Winding, twisting and entwining imply wrappings, or strips of bandage, rather than a single shroud.
But if they did mean a single sheet, then Matthew, Mark, and Luke would conflict with John 19:40, which is clearer by using the Greek word othonion, meaning “linen bandage” (Strong’s concordance). If the Bible writers had meant a single linen sheet like the shroud, the word used should have been othone (a single linen cloth, a sail, or a sheet). From this, it seems that all four Gospel writers were telling us that normal long strips of linen covered Jesus.
The Catholic Church itself does not accept the shroud as authentic. When we last checked, in May 2008, the Catholic Encyclopedia’s article on the Shroud of Turin admitted a number of reasons to doubt its authenticity.
Hello Bob, you are totaly wrong. The shroud of turin is real. It shows jesus with all his wounds. I can proof it, send me a mail if you are interessted.
Sorry, not interested! It’s a fake