tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955388713581848615.post1878290147840301562..comments2024-03-14T08:08:39.968+08:00Comments on The Shroud of Turin: Naked #9: The man on the Shroud: The evidence is overwhelming that the Turin Shroud is authentic! Stephen E. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16183223752386599799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955388713581848615.post-984579167795312432015-12-28T21:09:20.179+08:002015-12-28T21:09:20.179+08:00Antero
>As far as I'm aware there are no m...Antero<br /><br />>As far as I'm aware there are no medieval paintings or sculptures depicting a naked Jesus Christ,<br /><br />There is a sole exception, the Holkham Bible pictures of Jesus scourged and crucified naked. But apart from it is cartoon-like (unlike the Shroud's photographic realism), in the Holkham Bible pictures I have seen, Jesus is depicted side-on so that His genitals cannot be seen. I will deal with the Holkham Bible in a future installment.<br /><br />>( His genitalia are always concealed by a subligacum) <br /><br />Or the depiction is not front on, like the Holkham Bible. And there are, as far as I am aware, NO depictions in medieval art of Jesus' full-length naked BACK, including His buttocks. <br /><br />>so this peculiar aspect of the image of the Man of the Shroud is no doubt one of the many pieces of evidence pointing towards authenticity.<br /><br />Agreed.<br /><br />>This is one point I usually highlight in my lectures about the Shroud.<br /><br />And the nakedness of Jesus (front and BACK) is only ONE of the OVERWHELMING number of items of evidence that prove, beyond REASONABLE doubt, that the Shroud is authentic! <br /><br />>de Frias Moreira<br />Centro Português de Sindonologi<br /><br />Good to hear from you.<br /><br />Stephen E. Jones<br />---------------------------------<br />Reader, if you like this my <a href="http://theshroudofturin.blogspot.com.au/" rel="nofollow">The Shroud of Turin </a> blog, and you have a website, could you please consider adding a hyperlink to my blog on it? This would help increase its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank" rel="nofollow">Google PageRank</a> number and so enable those who are Google searching on "the Shroud of Turin" to more readily discover my blog. Thanks.Stephen E. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16183223752386599799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955388713581848615.post-2971078387661719312015-12-28T19:35:11.237+08:002015-12-28T19:35:11.237+08:00As far as I'm aware there are no medieval pain...As far as I'm aware there are no medieval paintings or sculptures depicting a naked Jesus Christ,( His genitalia are always concealed by a subligacum) so this peculiar aspect of the image of the Man of the Shroud is no doubt one of the many pieces of evidence pointing towards authenticity.<br />This is one point I usually highlight in my lectures about the Shroud.<br /><br /> Antero de Frias Moreira<br /> Centro Português de SindonologiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955388713581848615.post-6295730105708113152015-12-28T07:34:54.354+08:002015-12-28T07:34:54.354+08:00Steve
>What strikes me right away, is the powe...Steve<br /><br />>What strikes me right away, is the powerful build of Jesus' physique. Filmmakers usually portray Jesus with a light build. <br /><br />Yes. It is consistent with Jesus' occupation of carpenter (<a href="http://goo.gl/1PhsZu" rel="nofollow">Mk 6:3; Mt 13:55</a>).<br /><br />>I can see why the Sanhedrin sent an elite group of soldiers to arrest Him.<br /><br />The gospels don't say that it was "an elite group." Rather, the Synoptics say it was "a great crowd [armed] with swords and clubs" (<a href="http://goo.gl/ERhQXj" rel="nofollow">Mt 26:47; Mk 14:43; Lk 22:47</a>) and only <a href="http://goo.gl/kdbn96" rel="nofollow">Jn 18:3</a> adds that it was (or included) "a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees" (see also <a href="http://goo.gl/3Z81ye" rel="nofollow">Jn 18:12</a>, "the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him."<br /><br />Still, it seems grossly excessive to arrest one man. But the size of the arresting party was probably more to do with fear of Jesus' miraculous powers than with His physical powers. It is unlikely to have been fear of Jesus' followers because the arresting party was led by Judas, who knew that Jesus only had 11 disciples with Him in the Garden of Gethsemane.<br /><br />Stephen E. Jones<br />----------------------------------<br />MY POLICIES Comments are moderated. Those I consider off-topic, offensive or sub-standard will not appear. Except that comments under my latest post can be on any Shroud-related topic without being off-topic. I normally allow only one comment per individual under each one of my posts.Stephen E. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16183223752386599799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955388713581848615.post-89569713978552663542015-12-28T02:24:57.620+08:002015-12-28T02:24:57.620+08:00What strikes me right away, is the powerful build ...What strikes me right away, is the powerful build of Jesus' physique. Filmmakers usually portray Jesus with a light build. I can see why the Sanhedrin sent an elite group of soldiers to arrest Him. Ivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073646543319151044noreply@blogger.com