Jeremiah Johnston Makes His Case for the Shroud of Turin to Tucker Carlson

As an apologist and a pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Johnston has studied Scripture, history, and where the two often overlap. As part of the Christian Thinkers Society, Johnston is bringing a life-sized replica of the Shroud of Turin on his national lecture tour.

“This is what the best scientists in the world cannot replicate,” Johnston said to claims of fabrication.

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Podcast host and conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson invited Dr. Jeremiah Johnston on “The Tucker Carlson Show” to talk about new  information on and evidence for the Shroud of Turin. Discovered in the 1350s, this particular shroud is said to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ—but there is substantial skepticism about this claim.

Johnston describes the Shroud of Turin as an “ancient artifact that has defied modern science.”

A shroud, or burial cloth, is a linen garment that is wrapped around a corpse before burial, explained Johnston. The Shroud of Turin, amid consistent controversy, is said to be the very burial cloth that covered Jesus’ body. It’s currently housed in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin, Italy. “We get in this singular artifact the death, burial, and resurrection of the historical Jesus,” said Johnston.

The Shroud of Turin is a “continuously woven piece of cloth…pure linen” that measures 8.8 by 2 Assyrian cubits, or 14 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 7 inches. Johnston notes that the linen has a “herringbone weave.” He said the weave pattern is similar to the herringbone backsplash his wife chose for their kitchen, which was “very costly.” Said Johnston, “A wealthy man would have purchased this actual burial garment in his own pre-death planning.”

In the accounts of Jesus’ death and burial alongside cultural traditions in the gospels, “Joseph of Arimathea gives Jesus not only his own family tomb, a new tomb hewn in stone, but he actually gives him his own burial cloth as well,” Johnston explained.

We must take the shroud seriously, for it passes every test that has been put to it, according to Johnston: “The image in the Shroud does not reflect the portraits of Jesus in Medieval art.” Johnston continued, “The wounds don’t match the depiction of the wounds of Jesus. The face of the crucified man in the shroud resembles the earliest known portraits of Jesus, not the much better-known portraits in the Medieval period.”

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“What’s unique about this burial cloth,” said Johnston, “is that it has embedded in it the image of a crucified man that has complete correspondence with what we know of crucifixion in the Roman Empire, specifically as it relates to Jesus of Nazareth.”