- 5/25/2025
En este video exploramos el enigmático Sudario de Turín, una pieza de tela que ha intrigado a historiadores y teólogos durante más de mil años. ¿Es este sudario la evidencia física de la crucifixión de Jesucristo, o simplemente un montaje? A través de un análisis detallado de la historia de Jesucristo y las heridas que sufrió, investigaremos las teorías sobre la autenticidad del sudario y su impacto en la fe cristiana. Acompáñanos en este recorrido educativo que une el misterio religioso con la historia real de Jesucristo, y descubre qué dicen los expertos sobre esta fascinante reliquia.
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00:00Jesus Christ, a character who changed the course of history and of which, however, there was no physical trace left.
00:16Or did they?
00:20It took more than a thousand years until a piece of cloth appeared in Europe.
00:25In it, the image of a man who suffered the same wounds as Jesus during his crucifixion is distinguished.
00:33The Sudario of Turin.
00:39This is the real Sudario with which Jesus was buried, or a montage.
00:46It could very well be a detective story. It is a case of a scientific detective.
00:53Just to think of the possibility that an archaeological remains show that Jesus Christ was crucified, buried, and resurrected from the dead.
01:05This is one of the most transcendental moments in human history.
01:23The enigmas of Jesus Christ.
01:29The Sudario of Turin.
01:32Turin, northern Italy.
01:38The most famous religious relic in the world, the Sudario of Turin, is located in a chapel built specifically in the cathedral of the city.
01:47The canvas that many believe enveloped the body of Jesus of Nazareth almost 2,000 years ago.
01:57Protected by a shielded glass, the rectangular cloth of just half a meter is such a precious and valuable object that it is only shown to the public on rare occasions.
02:07The last time it was exposed in 2010, more than two million people went to see the Sudario of Turin.
02:17The Sudario is fascinating because it condenses all the experience of the Passion of Jesus into a single object.
02:24For believers, it is not just a relic. It is the proof of the resurrection of Jesus from among the dead.
02:31Some people believe that the image of the Sudario of Turin was produced by radiation at the time of the resurrection.
02:38That would be a physical proof of the resurrection of Jesus.
02:43Nothing can be more important than that.
02:47For millions of people, the Sudario is not just the proof of the death and resurrection of Jesus, but the only record of what it was like.
02:54The Gospels do not contain any physical description of Christ. None.
02:59We don't know what he looked like. We don't know how tall he was.
03:04We don't know what color his eyes were.
03:08But he had a face. He was a real person.
03:13He was a man of God.
03:16He was a man of God.
03:19He was a man of God.
03:21He was a real person.
03:25It fulfills a kind of temptation.
03:28A temptation to establish the face of Christ.
03:32To find out how he really was.
03:35What did the Son of God look like?
03:37Jesus of Nazareth
03:44Like thousands of pilgrims, Jesus Christ arrived in Jerusalem a week before his death for the Jewish Easter Festival.
03:56A few days later, he would be betrayed by Jews.
04:00Jesus of Nazareth!
04:03No!
04:05He was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane after an altercation with the authorities and led before the Romans to be judged and crucified.
04:24At that moment, the story of the Sudario begins.
04:27In the four Gospels, it speaks of the mortuary with which the body of Christ was wrapped for his burial.
04:36The Bible says that it was Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish Council, who provided the shroud.
04:49In the Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is described as a follower of the movement of Jesus Christ.
04:57He was fascinated by Jesus.
04:59So fascinated that even in spite of the crucifixion,
05:02he wanted to make sure that things were done correctly,
05:05and that Jesus was properly buried.
05:11Anyone who encountered Christ or his teachings would undergo a transformation.
05:15Either they were healed or they wanted to follow him.
05:18The simple fact of seeing Jesus, even if it was only once,
05:21was a change, and that was probably what changed Joseph's life.
05:28But in order to take Jesus down from the cross,
05:31Joseph first had to obtain permission.
05:37He went to the Roman prosecutor of Judea, Poncio Pilatos, to claim the body.
05:46Poncio Pilatos is a central figure in the history of Passion,
05:49because only he, as the Roman prosecutor of Judea,
05:52could sentence someone to death.
05:55So it is he who is responsible for the crucifixion and the death of Jesus.
06:01What brings you here, Rabbi?
06:04Pilatos is known for his anti-Semitism.
06:07He doesn't like the Jews, he doesn't like being in Judea.
06:12Jesus of Nazareth.
06:15I come to ask for your body.
06:18We have to wonder what Joseph was thinking.
06:21He was taking quite a risk,
06:23presenting himself before Pilatos to claim the body of a convicted criminal,
06:27a criminal who is guilty of political sedition.
06:32I have a grave in a discreet place, a place where I can accommodate his body.
06:39Presenting himself before Pilatos and asking him for what could be considered a personal favor,
06:43it's almost as if he's admitting his own guilt.
06:47We can imagine it as a very tense meeting of the two sides.
06:59Yes.
07:01Poncio Pilatos agreed to give the body to Joseph of Arimathea without giving it much importance.
07:06He probably thought it was an atypical Jewish custom.
07:11It was his way of putting an end to the whole matter.
07:16By allowing Joseph to take care of the body,
07:19Pilatos began, without knowing it, a journey that would make the tomb of Jesus
07:23one of the most venerated and mysterious relics of all time.
07:37Holy Friday.
07:39The Romans leave the body of Jesus hanging on the cross.
07:47Wrapping a victim of crucifixion in a mortar was not at all common.
07:54After they had exhaled their last breath, they would become garbage.
07:58They would leave them there to rot and be eaten.
08:04The Gospel of Matthew says that the body of Jesus was wrapped in a thin cloth of cotton
08:09brought by Joseph of Arimathea.
08:12The Bible also reveals that someone helped Joseph in the burial of Jesus,
08:18another member of the Jewish council, Nicodemus.
08:25Nicodemus, like Joseph of Arimathea,
08:28was also a member of the Sanhedrin and a man of weight in Jewish society.
08:33It's clear that not all the Jews of Jerusalem desired the death of Jesus
08:38for the simple fact that Jesus was Jewish, his followers were Jewish, his disciples were Jewish.
08:43But not only that, not even all the Jewish authorities supported the death of Jesus,
08:48as is the case of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
08:56The body is moved to the tomb of Joseph where it is prepared for burial.
09:03The moment that Nicodemus was most involved was the burial.
09:08He supplied products that were very expensive
09:11to be used in the process of embalming the body.
09:18The first Jewish law said that the touch of a corpse was impure.
09:23And so the fact that Joseph and Nicodemus
09:26were involved in the process of preparing the body of Jesus for burial
09:30is a proof of their tremendous love and devotion.
09:34The entrance to the tomb was sealed with a rock.
09:44Three days after the crucifixion,
09:47John and Simon Peter, two of Jesus' apostles, visited the tomb.
09:51They found it empty.
09:53The tomb was filled with the body of Jesus,
09:56but the tomb was not filled with the body of Jesus.
10:00Three days after the crucifixion,
10:03John and Simon Peter, two of Jesus' apostles, visited the tomb.
10:07They found it empty.
10:09This is what the Gospel of John tells us.
10:12And Simon Peter, who entered the tomb,
10:15and there he saw the shroud.
10:21But in the Bible it is not mentioned
10:24what kind of luck ran that canvas of linen.
10:30More than 1,300 years later,
10:33a shroud with the image of the body of Jesus crucified
10:36appeared out of nowhere in a small town in the northeast of France.
10:43When it was moved to Turin,
10:4540,000 people gathered to welcome it.
10:51When the Italian Secondo Pia
10:53took the first photograph of the shroud,
10:56centuries later, in 1898,
10:59it became a worldwide phenomenon.
11:06All of a sudden,
11:08the image of the shroud's man appeared in front of him.
11:13And it's like staring at the face of Jesus.
11:18The shroud soon went from an object of religious devotion
11:22to an icon of scientific obsession.
11:27Whoever proves that the shroud of Turin is authentic
11:30will be demonstrating the existence of Jesus Christ.
11:47In 1978, the physicist of the Air Force,
11:50John Jackson, a member of the Project for the Research of the Shroud of Turin,
11:54obtained permission to study the relic.
11:59You see the image of a man,
12:01in which you can see, for example,
12:03the head, the arms crossed,
12:06and you can even see the fingers.
12:12In front of a team of 40 scientists
12:14and with the most advanced tools at their disposal,
12:17Jackson begins to investigate the shroud.
12:21We really didn't know what we were going to discover.
12:24Was it a painting or was it something else?
12:28After working tirelessly for five days,
12:31the scientists' conclusions seemed to indicate
12:34the authenticity of the shroud,
12:36further increasing the mystery.
12:40Each of the fibers has some kind of coloration.
12:43So this doesn't agree with the use of any kind of painting,
12:46that's not it.
12:48The remains don't penetrate the thickness of the fabric,
12:51they just remain on the surface.
12:53The question is, why?
12:55Why does that happen?
12:58Jackson and his team also wanted to investigate
13:01some dark marks that seemed to be bloodstains.
13:07What we did was extract microscopic samples
13:10from areas with bloodstains
13:12and take them to the United States
13:14for a microchemical study.
13:16And the result was that these bloodstains were actually blood.
13:24Without being able to explain how the image and presence
13:27of what seemed to be blood in the shroud came about,
13:30Jackson searched in the Gospels for a possible connection
13:33between the last day of Jesus and the shroud.
13:41According to the Gospel of John,
13:43then Pilate arrested Jesus and made him stabbed.
13:51In my opinion, the most remarkable thing
13:54is the amount of marks spread all over the cloth.
13:57To me, these look like remains of blood
14:00from a person who was stabbed.
14:05The story of passion is full of references
14:08to the pain and humiliation in the justification of Jesus.
14:14It begins with the most striking, the flagellation,
14:17something that was about to end his life.
14:21It begins with the most striking, the flagellation,
14:24something that was about to end his life.
14:27If you think about it, it's a really awful spectacle.
14:30If you think about it, it's a really awful spectacle.
14:58They spat on him.
15:01They laughed at him.
15:04Anything to annihilate his will, anything at all.
15:11But the flood of Turin also reveals
15:14one of the most famous moments in the history of the crucifixion.
15:19The Gospel of John describes what happened next.
15:23The soldiers made a cross of thorns
15:26and placed it on his head.
15:29and placed it on his head.
15:32John Jackson has spent 40 years contrasting the flood of Turin
15:36with the descriptions of the death of Jesus collected in the Bible.
15:40with the descriptions of the death of Jesus collected in the Bible.
15:43If you look at the image of Jesus,
15:46if you look at the image of his forehead,
15:49you see what looks like bloodstains
15:52basically coming from some kind of hole.
16:00They correspond to what happened to Jesus according to the Gospel,
16:04the crown of thorns.
16:07The purpose of the crown of thorns
16:10was to put an end to any aspiration of the Jews
16:13to come to rule one day.
16:21They nailed it to his head in such a way
16:24that you could see the blood dripping down his face.
16:31I believe that is one of the most famous episodes
16:34of Jesus' life.
16:37It is very difficult to see anyone mocked like that.
16:40It is very difficult to see anyone mocked like that.
16:47After the flagellation and the crown of thorns,
16:50according to the Gospel,
16:53Jesus was led to crucifixion.
16:56The cross that dragged Jesus through the streets of Jerusalem
16:59weighed more than 130 kilos.
17:14While Jesus was carrying the cross,
17:17a crowd was following him.
17:27Some showed compassion,
17:30others mocked him.
17:35The scene must have been appalling.
17:51Jackson is convinced that the sweat
17:54was shed at the last moments of Jesus.
17:58The bloodstains around the shoulder
18:01are more intense and more spread
18:04than those on the back.
18:08Maybe what we're looking at is the fact
18:11that when the cross was laid on the shoulder,
18:14the blood of the wounds
18:17that had previously inflicted on him spread.
18:21As he was pushing through the streets,
18:24there came a moment when the weight of the cross
18:27became too much for Jesus.
18:35At some point, the soldiers asked Simon Cyreneus
18:38to carry the cross for him.
18:41This was not a gesture of kindness on his part,
18:44but a gesture of respect for Jesus.
18:47He was so weak that it was impossible for him
18:50to carry the cross.
18:56That is why Simon Cyreneus
18:59helped him carry it.
19:03Another two criminals were crucified on the same day.
19:27They threw him to the ground,
19:30they spoke to him as rudely as possible
19:33to show him that he had no control,
19:36that he was completely unprotected.
19:55Every part of the crucifixion
19:58was meant to cause more anguish,
20:01more humiliation,
20:04more fear and horror among those who were present.
20:13But the crucifixion,
20:16there was Mary, the mother of Jesus,
20:19and Mary Magdalene watching the terrible scene.
20:22It must have been incredibly difficult
20:25for the followers of Jesus,
20:28for their families, or for their friends,
20:31to witness that scene.
20:38And so, while they were holding his arm out,
20:41he saw the huge nail and he tried to remove it.
20:47And they nailed him.
20:55At this point, the mystery of the crucifixion intensifies.
20:58The marks of the cloth challenge
21:01all the knowledge we thought we had about the crucifixion.
21:06The wounds could be in the wrong place.
21:16Each stage of the crucifixion
21:19is meant to inflict pain and humiliation.
21:26In this sense, the Sudario de Turín
21:29reveals to us an unexpected story.
21:34For centuries, the artistic tradition
21:37showed the nails going through the palms of the hands of Jesus.
21:44In the image of the Sudario,
21:47it seems to have been crucified by the dolls.
21:51Jackson believes that the Sudario
21:54reveals a more historical version.
21:58The goal is for the person who is crucified
22:01to stay unconscious until he dies.
22:04There have been experiments with corpses,
22:07both with the hypothetical location of the nails in the palms
22:10and in the dolls.
22:13These experiments have shown that the dolls
22:16have much more capacity to withstand the weight
22:19than the palms, which would coincide with the Sudario.
22:22The palms would end up tearing.
22:34Then they raised the cross.
22:37Imagine the agony of getting up
22:40after having crossed with nails in the hands and feet.
22:43Any movement would be agony.
22:47Then they held the cross with ropes
22:50and then dropped it into a hole so it wouldn't fall.
22:53Imagine what that must have been like.
23:01One of the difficulties to imagine the crucifixion
23:04is that for 2,000 years, the Christian tradition
23:07has venerated the image of the cross.
23:10There are images of Jesus in precious churches with golden crosses.
23:13All that prevents us from really imagining
23:16what a crucifixion was.
23:22But when we stop for a moment
23:25and observe the historical nature of the crucifixion
23:28and remember the purpose of the Romans
23:31in humiliating and torturing people,
23:34then for a moment we see it as something very different,
23:37something painful and humiliating.
23:43The Crucifixion
23:51The weight of the body falls on the arms
23:54making it increasingly difficult to breathe.
23:57Most of the victims of the crucifixion died of asphyxia.
24:06I'm thirsty.
24:09I'm thirsty.
24:14Imagine that your mother, your father,
24:17or your best friend
24:20is nailed to a wood hanging in the open sun
24:23and also suffers a terrible death of asphyxia.
24:28It's hard to explain something like that with words.
24:39This had to be the most atrocious moment of their lives.
24:43The Crucifixion
24:53The last mark of the crucifixion
24:56took place just after the death of Jesus.
25:00This blood mark does not coincide with a normal crucifixion
25:03but in the case of Jesus, the Gospels tell us
25:06that it was made by a Roman soldier
25:09to make sure he was dead
25:12so he could lower his body before the Jewish Passover.
25:18In the Gospel of John, a soldier crosses the body of Jesus
25:21on one side, spilling blood and water.
25:29There are those who hold the hypothesis
25:32that these lighter areas are due to the fluids
25:35associated with the blood, the blood and water
25:38that the Gospels mention.
25:42The soldier of Turin seems to be a silent witness
25:45of the final suffering of Jesus.
26:01And then, according to the Gospels,
26:04after being buried,
26:07Jesus rose again.
26:13The only thing left in the tomb
26:16was the cloth used to wrap his body.
26:24The crucifixion is one of the most impactful fragments
26:27of the Gospels, simply because it is the death of Jesus,
26:30the Son of God, but it is also the beginning of a new life.
26:36To find an archaeological remains
26:39of his existence, his death and his resurrection
26:42is something extraordinary.
26:47Based on the research I have done,
26:50I think we are in front of the mortar used
26:53with Jesus 2,000 years ago.
26:59However, there is a part of the research
27:02that Jackson could not complete.
27:05A precise date of the material.
27:10In 1988, the Catholic Church,
27:13for the first time since its discovery,
27:16allowed the use of part of the cloth
27:19to subject it to carbon dating.
27:23Samples were cut from the edge of the mortar
27:26and sent to three independent laboratories
27:29in London, Zurich and Arizona.
27:33Just think about the possibility
27:36that an archaeological remains
27:39shows that Jesus Christ was crucified,
27:42buried and resurrected among the dead.
27:45It is one of the most significant moments
27:48in human history.
27:53Turin, 1988.
27:56Three small pieces of the cloth have been extracted
27:59to be sent to laboratories around the world
28:02and subjected to a carbon dating test.
28:06It is the moment of truth for the Turin Shroud.
28:09It is the authentic or a falsification.
28:13For hundreds of years, the Turin Shroud
28:16has been an important symbol of faith
28:19for Catholics and believers around the world.
28:22Today, the Turin Shroud has confirmed
28:25the results of the tests.
28:28The piece of linen with the image of Christ
28:31does not date from the time of Jesus.
28:34It dates from the 13th century.
28:37It is a falsification of the Middle Ages.
28:40It was outrageous to think that it was the Shroud of Jesus Christ.
28:47This is huge.
28:48People to look at it and say,
28:50this is Jesus, our Lord.
28:52This is what he went through.
28:54To say, no, sorry.
28:56It is a very good falsification.
28:58It was painful.
29:01In medieval Europe,
29:03the business of the creation of religious relics
29:06was very profitable.
29:08People longed to pay to feel closer to Jesus
29:11and the falsifiers took advantage of the situation.
29:15But despite being proven to be a falsification,
29:18the fascination for the Shroud increased.
29:22How did the image of the Shroud come about?
29:24No one has an explanation.
29:26There are all kinds of theories that have not yet been proven.
29:33The Shroud of Jesus Christ
29:37The South African art historian,
29:39Professor Nicholas Allen,
29:41believes he knows the answer.
29:44He is convinced that it is the oldest photograph in the world.
29:50When I look at the Shroud, I wonder how it was made.
29:53And the Shroud tells us that it acts as the negative of a photo.
29:58I am aware that thinking that someone could take a photo 600 years ago
30:03may seem crazy,
30:05but when I started to investigate the technology available at that time,
30:09I realized that they had everything they needed.
30:14Due to his knowledge of art history,
30:17Allen knew that artists of the Middle Ages
30:20already used an optical device called a dark camera.
30:25The dark camera worked exactly like the human eye.
30:28It was a sealed box in which light could not enter except through a large hole.
30:33Like in the human eye, there was a lens.
30:36Everything that was outside the box
30:38was focused through the lens,
30:40forming an inverted image,
30:42that is, face down,
30:44in the back of the camera.
30:47Thanks to the lens of the front of the camera,
30:50a sharp image is projected in the back.
30:53We know for sure that it is a very old technology.
30:56It was available in the 13th century
30:59or at the beginning of the 14th century,
31:01just when it was supposed to be used.
31:06Allen places a model in front of his dark camera
31:09and places it facing the sun.
31:11The whole scene must be calculated to the millimeter
31:14before starting the exhibition.
31:19A medieval artist would have needed to make sure
31:22that any image that he projected on a fabric
31:25was fixed permanently.
31:28The canvas had to be immersed in photographic chemicals.
31:33Today, this is equivalent to using silver aluminum.
31:39Both silver nitrate and silver sulfate
31:42were known in Europe in the 13th century
31:45and were very easy to get.
31:52A sheet is immersed in a solution of silver sulfate.
32:02It is allowed to dry
32:06and then mounted on the camera.
32:12After eight hours of exposure,
32:14a decoloration of the fabric is patented,
32:17which would be the negative of the image
32:19that is outside the camera.
32:23To complete the process,
32:25it was necessary to wash the fabric
32:27with a chemical product easily available.
32:33The silver sulfate of the piece of fabric
32:35could have been cleaned with urine
32:37because urine contains a large amount of ammonia.
32:43Whoever made the sweat of Turin
32:45did not get it the first time.
32:48This probably required a lot of planning
32:50and a lot of errors.
33:07The resulting image has the characteristics
33:10of the image of the sweat of Turin,
33:12which is a negative,
33:14and the coloration, the pigment or dust stains.
33:22Here we have an image produced three days ago
33:25with a dark camera.
33:27To turn this into the sweat of Turin,
33:29you would only have to add some blood stains.
33:32It would be enough to paint artistically
33:34the stigmas on the image.
33:38In my opinion, this is the oldest
33:40existing example of a phenomenon
33:42that today we call photography
33:44and it dates from the medieval era.
33:48But Allen's work has aroused a lot of controversy
33:51and leaves many questions unanswered.
33:56If it is a medieval photograph,
33:58where are all the other medieval photographs?
34:01That's the other problem with sweat.
34:03It's unique.
34:04There's nothing like it.
34:08Despite the carbon dating,
34:10some people still believe in its authenticity.
34:15Some people refuse to believe in the result.
34:18They question the samples that were used.
34:20They consider that they were not obtained
34:22from the center of the sweat,
34:24but from the edges.
34:27The recent study of another mysterious relic
34:29has aroused new doubts
34:31about our knowledge of the sweat of Turin.
34:40This is a piece of museum
34:42that suggests that the sweat
34:44is even older than it is claimed to be.
34:51In a small annex of a cathedral
34:53in northern Spain,
34:55is the cloth that perhaps covered
34:57the face of Jesus after he died on the cross.
35:00The sweat of Oviedo.
35:11Mark Gaskin and a team from the Spanish Center for Sindonology
35:15have been studying the sweat of Oviedo for 25 years.
35:21According to legend,
35:23it is a piece of independent cloth
35:25that is also mentioned in the Bible.
35:28And there he saw the sweat and the cloth that covered his face.
35:33We've taken a look at the spots of the cloth
35:35that are made of,
35:37and most of them are made of one part of blood
35:39and six parts of pleural fluid,
35:41which is a liquid that accumulates
35:43in the lungs when somebody dies of asphyxiation.
36:03The researchers believe
36:05that most of the victims of crucifixion
36:07died of asphyxiation,
36:09leaving remains in the lungs
36:11of the fluids associated with it.
36:15Gaskin's study,
36:17made with an exact replica of the cloth,
36:19casts a new light
36:21on a part of the story of Jesus
36:23that was unknown until then.
36:27What this experiment has shown
36:29is that, without a doubt,
36:31the cloth was on a corpse
36:33because all the bloodstains found
36:35are totally incompatible
36:37with any type of breathing movement.
36:46If Gaskin is right,
36:48José de Arimatea would have placed the cloth
36:51on the face of Jesus
36:53when he was still on the cross.
36:56The face part would be used
36:58in the Jewish burial tradition
37:00which considers the face
37:02to be the seed of the soul
37:04of a deceased person.
37:06The face is the first thing that is covered.
37:09It is the first thing that is treated
37:11with the greatest respect.
37:16I think the reason why José
37:18was so predisposed
37:20to make sure that Jesus
37:22received an honorable burial
37:24is because of the way of saying
37:26I didn't do what I should have done.
37:29I should have defended him.
37:36For Gaskin, the marks of the sweat
37:38corresponding to the forehead
37:40explain how José
37:42lowered the body of the cross.
37:45The only way to get this image
37:47was if the body was face down on the ground
37:50so that all the liquid and blood
37:52coming from the nose
37:54would run down to the forehead.
38:00But it is assumed that they moved
38:02the body face down for five or ten minutes
38:05while someone was holding the cloth
38:07against his face.
38:11Once in the tomb,
38:13he removed the cloth from his face
38:17and wrapped Jesus in the sweat.
38:20This is how we know what happened
38:22from the time of Christ's death
38:24until his body was placed in the tomb.
38:28But Gaskin believes that there is
38:30an even more important reason
38:32for studying the sweat.
38:34For him, the marks on the cloth
38:36are like a fingerprint.
38:38There are no two identical ones.
38:41If this cloth had been placed
38:43on someone else's face,
38:45even if they had suffered
38:47wounds, then the marks would have
38:49a completely different shape
38:51and a completely different situation.
38:54For Gaskin, this is a crucial proof
38:56because when his team compared
38:58the bloodstains of Oviedo's sweat
39:00with those of Turin's sweat,
39:02the discovery was amazing.
39:10The bloodstains coincided.
39:13So we can conclude that the two cloths
39:15were used at the same time
39:17to cover the same body.
39:21The carbon proof of the cloth
39:23has not yielded clear results,
39:25but the first written document
39:27that mentions the relic
39:29is located in Jerusalem,
39:31more than 500 years after Jesus' death.
39:34For Gaskin, this document suggests
39:36that it is at least 700 years older
39:38than the sweat of Turin.
39:40How is this possible?
39:46Gaskin believes that the dating
39:48of the sweat of Turin is not correct.
39:54Now that is an amazing conclusion
39:56because they could only have coincided
39:58in Jerusalem at some point
40:00before the 5th century,
40:02which questions the dating
40:04of the sweat of Turin
40:06and shows that it does not date
40:08but is a piece of cloth
40:10that is much older.
40:15Despite decades of conscientious
40:17scientific research,
40:19for many, the mystery
40:21and power of the sweat of Turin
40:23are still in force.
40:25I do think that the sweat
40:27that enveloped Jesus
40:29has survived to this day.
40:31It must have been an object
40:33of great value for the apostles
40:35and for the first Christians,
40:37and it must have survived to this day.
40:41My gut tells me that it is real.
40:47I find it hard to believe that it is real,
40:49but the sweat of Turin
40:51calls our attention to an inevitable aspect
40:53of the story of Jesus,
40:55which is how much he suffered.
40:58Jesus may be glorious,
41:00king of heaven, lord of lords,
41:02king of kings,
41:04but this moment of suffering
41:06has been recorded in the sweat of Turin.
41:08It is the most human moment.
41:12For many, the sweat of Turin
41:14is also the painful memory
41:16of a man who tried to do the right thing.
41:22I think part of the story of Joseph
41:24is our story.
41:26Even though he did not know
41:28what would happen next,
41:30despite not knowing how it would develop,
41:32what he did know was to remain by Jesus' side,
41:34a part of the story of God
41:36in the history of mankind.
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