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had said, could bleed a little, but not in the amount shown on the shroud around the scalp and on the hands and arms. both feet and so on. Such copious exudations could only have been pumped by a living heart. Still later Naber received confirmations of this theory from another doctor, W. B. Primrose, a former senior anaesthetist at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In an article entitled Jesus's Survival from the Cross, Primrose used, among others. the argument that corpses do not bleed. Reflecting on his seven day vision, Naber made another discovery. He saw the tip of the lance, which had been thrust up into the side of Jesus, sticking out of the left pectoral muscle. In other words, according to his vision, the lance tip had not come to rest within the chest cavity as most historical, medical and theological experts believed; it had emerged several inches above the left nipple. Peering at the pectoral area on his shroud photos, he even thought he could see the tiny wound mark. It was circular and could be differentiated from the marks of the scourging. which were straight and smaller. By drawing a straight line from the point of entry on the right side between the fifth and sixth ribs, which was Barbefs hypothesis and which was quoted by Hyneck, through the lungs to the exit wound at the left pectoral muscle, Naber had what appeared to be a lance-path that missed the heart. He promptly went to hospital where he had an X-ray taken with a simulated lance laid across the chest cavity with the lance-path that missed the top of his heart by approximately three inches. Now there was no question in his mind that his vision had been correct in all its details. He began to search for other supporting evidence, especially in the Scriptures. "Nowhere in the Old Testament does it say that the Messiah had to die, or would die 210