Subject: did Christ reveal to the disciples |
Bible Note: Hi Tim, Good point but a bad translation of the truth that was easily missed by the translators when written in the English. If one would consider the word wrapped, ENTULISSO, in the Koine it will get one started in the right direction. John 20:7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. I did an extensive study on this verse years ago and the fact of the matter is; the Jews learned the technique of the burial from the Egyptians in part. Here is what I found: The napkin that was used only around the head was of a much thicker material then that used to wrap the rest of the body and as a result it held more of the spices that were used to cover the victim. John 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. The napkin material was of a narrower material then those used for the rest of the body but there was more of it used, causing the layers to be thicker after the head was fully wrapped. They would crisscross back and forth around the face and under the chin and around the neck and over the top of the head, with many layers, until everything was covered then the spices were applied. This would form a mass that was self supporting much the same way if you would take a balloon and covering it with paper-mache. This inner twinning of the material formed a round shape that included the neck on the side and none of this was directly connected to the body wrap. The body was placed on a narrow stone slab of those that were wealthy where the decomposition process accrued quite slowly. What was seen, upon careful examination, was the fact that the head cover was still intact, as a ball, but the head was removed without disturbing the original shape of the napkin. It was lying by itself still crisscross wrapped, but because it was not connected or held to the body wrap it had rolled off of the slab and was laying by itself still in a ball shape. That would be the same as wrapping a balloon with paper-mache then popping the balloon with a pin after the paper-mache had dried. It would be an utter impossibility for Jesus to remove His Head without destroying the wrapped shape and due to this fact John now believed the first resurrection in history had taken place. John 20:8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. It wasn’t that John finally believed in Jesus, it was that he believed in the resurrection due to the fact that the head of Christ went through the napkin without unwrapping it. CDBJ |