The Shroud of Turin Controversey

Every year at this time, people who know little about the Bible yet are looking for something magically "religious" bring up the shroud of Turin. The Shroud, regardless of how interesting the image may be has no connection whatsoever with Jesus the Christ. Jesus was not buried in a shroud. The bible very clearly teaches that Jesus' body was wrapped in burial cloths (strips about two inches wide, as was the Jewish custom carried from the Egyptian captivity). That is part of the proving part of the Gospel that Peter and John testified to after visiting the empty tomb, the burial strips were flat and empty but had not been unwrapped, the body had Resurrected through the cloth. The Napkin, or what we would call a bandanna, used to cover the face was neatly folded as a carpenter folded his sweaty headband after a job was completed, and it would placed on top of the finished work to denote "being finished".