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come to the conclusion that Jesus was buried alive. The experts affirm that the Holy Shroud preserved in Turin lay on a crucified body that suffered exactly the same passion as Jesus, but state that this person did not die on the cross, but was buried while still alive. The twenty-eight bloodstains on the shroud prove this. The investigators assure us that a corpse wrapped in a shroud could not bleed in that manner. . Jesus was buried alive, unless a second Jesus existed and he was made to suffer the same agony. . In the same book the author quotes from Kurt Berna's book in German Jesus Did Not Die on the Cross. This author talks of the importance of the discovery of this shroud for both the. Christian and the Jewish religions and indeed for Islam also which he omitted to mention and, in his letter to Pope John. XXIII, he clearly mentioned that “. . . this discovery suggests that the present and past teachings of Christianity are incorrect”. . Kurt Berna also concludes that medical evidence shows that. Jesus was not dead when he was wrapped in the shroud because had he been dead no fresh blood could have flowed from his injured body and left traces on the cloth. . It will thus be seen that the combined evidence from the. Scriptures, the Holy Quran, important medical research and the recent stimulating research on the Turin Shroud clearly affirm that Jesus did not die on the cross. Now, if Jesus did not die on the cross and did not bodily ascend to Heaven, where did he go?. We have shown that the story of his resurrection and bodily ascension is a myth. Incidentally, no one has cared to explain why there was an interval of three days between the removal of the body from the cross and Jesus' alleged resurrection and ascension to heaven. This interval of three days is, in fact, only consistent with his medical treatment and escape after gaining strength from his ordeal on the cross. This introduces us to the story of his travels in search of the lost tribes of Israel. . We read in the Bible that Jesus Christ was sent only “to the lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Matthew 15:24) and that he had come to seek and save that which was lost. (Luke: 19:10). Now if the Jews living in Palestine are to be regarded as lost then the Israelites who had settled farther afield must certainly be so regarded, for they were lost physically as well as spiritually. Jesus further said that he had come to seek that which was lost and this can by no means apply to any but the 55