![]() In this article I identify the garment left by the young man who "ran away naked" (Mark 14,51-52) with the burial shroud of Jesus (John 19-20) and that young man with the secret disciple John Mark, co-author of the Gospel of John. The three authors cited, of course, relied heavily on other ancient and modern Jewish sources. There are no doubt other Jewish authors that could be consulted, but these sources make for useful self-limiting parameters, insofar as the sources are not widely accessible - one Jewish source is from a somewhat obscure theological journal, one is from an audio presentation recorded on cassette tape, and the third source with three different works are only found in written conference proceedings. ![]() In this paper, I will look at three different sources, two Jews with one work each and one Jew that converted to Catholicism (three works). There have been a few specifically Jewish sources that have addressed this. However, there have been several key problems: 1) the Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) conflict somewhat with the gospel of John 2) it is not exactly clear what the Jewish burial customs were at the time and 3) most of the authors are usually Christians and/or skeptics with less-than-ideal knowledge of both the gospels and Jewish burial customs in general and specifically in the First Century. Oceans of ink have been spilled explaining how the Shroud matches (or doesn’t) to the gospel accounts of the burial as well as the known Jewish burial customs at the time. If the Turin Shroud (TS) is authentic, i.e., the burial cloth of the historical Jesus, it would have had to originate in first century Jerusalem, all the time and place of Jesus’ death. ![]()
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