Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 52
and the Passover of the Jews who were strictly forbidden to leave anyone nailed to the cross on the sacred day. There was darkness over the whole land and the Jews, fearing lest they should sin against the Lord by profaning the Holy Day, hastened to take down the body of Jesus. Happily for Jesus, although the soldiers came and broke the legs and bones of the other two, who had been put on the cross at the same time, they gave no such treatment to Jesus. . Further medical evidence is provided by the story of the piercing of the side of Jesus with a spear by one of the soldiers at the time of the removal of the body from the cross, when blood and water poured forth from the resultant wound. This flow of blood from the wound shows that Jesus had not died upon the cross as blood could not have poured out from a dead body. . We also have the evidence in hundreds of books on medicine which describe an ointment as marham Isa which means the "ointment of Jesus". Materia Medica in Greek stated that this ointment was first prepared for the injuries received by Jesus. Christ. The reference to this ointment is found in over a thousand books of medicine including the famous book Qanun by Bu Ali Sena (Avicenna). The ointment is particularly suited to stop the flow of blood from external injuries. . There has recently been another remarkable discovery in the form of the Turin Shroud, whose history goes back to the ninth century, when it was in Jerusalem. . Prof. Max Frie, a distinguished criminologist and director of the scientific laboratory of the Zurich police, has tested the. Turin Shroud for the pollen adhering to it, and, after years of meticulous analysis, using the most advanced techniques, has been able to build up a detailed picture of the shroud's history and origins. In particular, he discovered on the shroud tiny grains of fossilized pollen that, after detailed tests, turned out to be from plants existing only in Palestine twenty centuries ago. This result of Max Frie's investigation into the shroud is contained in. Mr. Faber-Kaiser's book Jesus Died in Kashmir published in 1976. . The author is a scholar of comparative religion who has pieced together an impressive dossier which fills a number of biblical lacunae that have perplexed scholars for hundreds of years. Let me quote another passage from this author's book:. After seven years of investigations concerning the shroud that covered (Christ's) body, many scientists have 54