Donna
Danna (16 Nov 2010)
"TO SUZI -- JESUS BODY WRAPPED IN LINEN BANDAGES WITH SPICES"
According to Matthew 27:59, Joseph of
Arimathea wrapped Jesus body in a clean linen cloth (Strong's
Concordance 4616 Greek word "sindon" - linen cloth), and laid it in his
own tomb hewn out of rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of
the sepulchre and departed and there was Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary sitting over against the sepulchre which is why the women returned
with the spices on the first day of the week early in the morning to
finish prepare Jesus' body. However, the women's spices weren't
needed because before the women according to John 19:39-40 Nicodemus
had previously come to the tomb after Joseph of Arimathea and brought a
mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred weight. Then they
took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes (Strong's
Greek Concordance word 3608 "othonion" -- linen bandage) with the
spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury. So Jesus wasn't buried in
the one piece cloth that Joseph took his body away in to the
tomb. He was wound up in linen cloth bandages. I don't see
any reason why Nicodemus would have left the napkin off of Jesus face
since it was also a burial custom which had previously been done when
Lazarus was buried and his face was bound about with a napkin according
to John 11:44. I don't see how the burial shroud of Turin can be
Jesus' burial shroud since it's one piece, and not mummy like linen
cloth bandages that were wound around Jesus body.