Jerusalem 33 ad according to the gospels after years of preaching and Gathering disciples throughout the Holy Land the life of Jesus of Nazareth reaches a pivotal moment for many Christians the story of Holy Week begins with Jesus on Sunday entering into Jerusalem in Triumph here he is in the most important city for Jews he's in this Temple the the sacred place for Jewish worship and he's appalled by what he finds there the gospels have Jesus going into the temple complex and overturning the tables of the money changers there he's condemning the abuse of people that
are poor he's condemning the abuse of people that might want to go to the temple to actually worship he says you've taken something that is Holy and beautiful and you've made this a den of Thieves when your control is being threatened you act and so what the aristocratic priests do is they bring Jesus in for a hearing and they're not so much interested in hearing what he has to say but imposing charges on him that he was threatening to damage the temple when Jesus is arrested they argue that he has disrupted Judaism that he is
claiming to be God and hasn't been mindful of secular Authority what Jesus is doing in Jerusalem is absolutely upsetting the status quo and they're just not sure what to do with this guy the Jewish aristocratic leadership they are not the most senior members in the status quo power of Jerusalem the Romans are so they need to take Jesus to the Civil Authority the Jewish authorities arrest Jesus and hand him over to the Romans the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate declares that Jesus's claim to be king amounts to treason and sentences him to death by crucifixion for
the Romans this is a public way of saying if you mess with us if you mess with the Roman Empire this is what will happen to you will die and you will die horribly and publicly it takes roughly 6 hours for Jesus to die once he's dead he's taken off the cross and wrapped in cloth and taken to a borrowed tomb Jesus death at 3:00 in the afternoon means that burial needs to occur very very quickly because the setting of the Sun and the start of Sabbath is going to be on them very very quickly
so there's a sense of urgency about moving Jesus body from the execution site to the burial site there could be no work done on the Sabbath so there was a rush to get him enshrouded and [Music] intuned and that is why of course the women were returning on Sunday morning after the Sabbath so that they could finish the anointing of his body what happens is of course the great event in Christianity the resurrection Jesus isn't there his body isn't there he has been resurrected All That Remains is the linen claw that once covered the body
in 1988 the shroud of Turan undergo what many consider to be a definitive analysis these carbon dating tests make headlines around the world they indicate the cloth was made between 1260 and just before French Knight DNE brought it to his church but not everyone believes the findings there was a fire in 1532 and there was repair done to the Shroud by the poor cla's this order of nuns could this have contaminated the Shroud is this carbon dating not of the actual shroud but of the material from 1532 and in early 2022 new evidence centered around
the age of the cloth made support that belief researchers present a surprising observation they had about a dozen samples of other linen cloths dating all the way back to 5000 BC and they could assess the amount of natural aging and all these other cloths and the only cloth that had a comparable amount of natural aging as fibers from the Shroud was taken from Masada which is in Israel Circa 1 century and so this then becomes a very strong piece of evidence that suggests just based on natural aging that the cloth is far older than the
700 years ascribed by the carbon Labs that leaves us with a very real possibility we could be talking about a first century cloth and in 2011 a finding by Italian physicist Dr Pao D Lazaro may offer Believers further support in 2011 he published in a peer- review journal how they've been experimenting with ultraviolet ecer lasers these are high power these are industrial lasers these are not some kind of pointer and they determined a 40 nond burst achieves the very same depth and coloration as we see on the Shroud this experimentally shows how the image could
indeed be the result of light but it would take an incredible amount of power to generate the light needed to create the Shroud image in a split second to replicate the Shroud image you would need 14,000 lasers all going off instantaneously at the same time I have to remind everybody uh lasers weren't invented till about 1946 so something of that nature in medieval times or even in the first century just couldn't exist but if the Shroud is truly from the first century an event from from the Bible might reveal an answer and just before Jesus
makes his last trip to Jerusalem he takes Peter James and John with them up on a high mountain and is transfigured before them some turn to the Bible and point to the Transfiguration of Christ that took place when Christ was praying with the disciples they read scripture and they highlight the passage that indicates that his face was shining as the sun and his clothes became bright white in the biblical account Jesus is transfigured into a form of energy or light his disciples describe him as his face glowing his clothes dazzling white D Lazaro hypothesizes that
the Transfiguration burst of light and energy could have repeated itself during another important event in Christianity following his Transfiguration Jesus tells his disciples to not tell anyone until the son of man has risen from the dead so this clearly foreshadows something that is going to happen something that the disciples are going to see again for many Believers the idea is that this is a a snapshot this is literally the moment of Jesus's resurrection he's wrapped in this cloth he gets resurrected there's this phenomenal amount of energy that must have been released in that is that
what creates this image the marks on the cloth are not the result of a conventional type of heat or a light that would generate heat for instance it's not like you would get a Scorch on an ironing board for instance it's more analogous to a light that might be from a laser now we know that the burns clearly are the result of heat because they flues under ultraviolet light but the body image does not flues so it looks like a Scorch but it's not for delaro he stopped short of saying this is a miracle but
of course this is extraordinary because you don't have that kind of ultraviolet light technology needed in the first century so if this actually has happened this is inexplicable Christians will argue that that kind of energy was actually produced through the resurrection for them the amount of energy needed isn't an issue the resurrection was such a powerful event that it could produce what science cannot for many Christians the Shroud of Turin is proof of the Cornerstone in their faith the death and resurrection of Jesus for Christians this is an important symbol it speaks to the death
and resurrection of Jesus the center point the fundamental meaning of the Gospel their argument is is until science can tell them how this was produced there is good reason to believe that it is authentic I don't think we can exclude a physical process but it is a physical process that we do not understand and cannot replicate today more academic scrutiny has been brought to bear on this 14 and a half foot strip of linen than any other object in the world and we still can't explain the image that's a philosophical challenge when you confront the
limits of your human knowledge your human capacity where else do you go for an [Music] answer
