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

Johnston argued that, despite rumors, science has not discredited that the Shroud of Turin is in fact the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

“The blood absorbs all the way through the linen, but the image is superficial,” explained Johnston. He continued:

The image is only two microns thick. It does not absorb all the way through. So, if this was a hoax, if this was a work of art, if there was pigment, if there was dye, if there was paint, it would absorb fully. But if we took a razor to the actual shroud, we could shave off the image because it’s that thin. And, this is what the best scientists in the world cannot replicate.

Johnston credits his friend and artist, Doug Powell, with creating an AI rendering of Jesus’ face. To do so, Powell “imported information of the face of the crucified man and compares it with the icon Pantocrator, ‘Lord Overall.'” Johnston described the image as “moving” and having “powerful to look at.”

“For decades, experts dismissed the Shroud of Turin as fake,” said Carlson. “New science suggests they were wrong, and probably lying.”

Johnston claimed that the British Museum has hidden or suppressed scientific evidence for the shroud for 29 years. He said people can “just read for themselves and think for themselves.” He then went on to give examples of how information was suppressed or misrepresented.

“One of the professors who wrote on the chalkboard ‘1260-1390’ was given a $5 million endowed chair right after this announcement,” said Johnston of a public statement on the age of the Shroud of Turin.

Johnston claimed that in order to fabricate the blood on the Shroud, one would need to use blood from the same person containing biological evidence of premortem blood and post-mortem blood—with the indicators of a pulmonary edema.

“There is a demonic hatred towards anything biblical,” argued Johnston, hatred that includes suppression of the Dead Sea Scrolls. “There is a hyper-skepticism towards biblical fragments…that we don’t foist on anything else except biblical fragments.”

More than 9,000 comments have been left on the video. Many viewers identified as Catholic, and several as Protestant or evangelical. Still others watched the video from an atheist or agnostic point of view. One person mentioned, “The Shroud of Turin opens up my heart to Christ.”

“As a Christian born in the Old City of Jerusalem, I want to thank you deeply for your powerful and respectful show on the Shroud of Turin,” another commenter said. “This subject is not only vital to the Christian faith but also a moving reminder of Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection.”