The Bible states quite clearly that the body of Christ Jesus was coated with a mixture of myrrh and aloes. That He was wrapped with strips of linen cloth like a mummy. (See: John 19:38-40) And, that His head was separately covered with His own Hebrew prayer shawl. (John 20:7)

This burial preparation method was, at the time of Christ Jesus, the "custom of the Jews" mentioned in John’s Gospel. This Hebrew burial-preparation method has no similarity with the Shroud of Turin at all.

The two burial preparation methods
are so very different as to be worlds apart,
easily proving the Shroud of Turin a fake!

Ever since the Israelite’s 400 years in Egypt, the burial "custom of the Jews" was (externally) identical to that of mummification, without any of the internal features.

And, following a ritual washing of the corpse...

At the time of Christ Jesus, dead Hebrew bodies were first coated with a mixture of myrrh and aloes. Then they were wrapped with long linen strips that were saturated with myrrh and aloes.

Beginning with the extremities, each arm and leg was individually wound like a mummy. Then the entire body was wound from toes to neck, also like wrapping a mummy.

The fully wrapped body was then coated with any remaining myrrh and aloes, while the unwrapped head was simply covered (draped) with the dead Hebrew’s own prayer shawl, which was not saturated with myrrh and aloes.

Within 3 days, the mixture of myrrh and aloes dries rock-hard, like shellac, producing an exceedingly stiff and solid cocoon.

All this was the burial "custom of the Jews"
in the time of Christ Jesus.

There is no way a purported burial covering like the Shroud of Turin could qualify as Christ Jesus’ actual burial clothing.

The Shroud of Turin is more like a curtain or a double-length bed sheet, which seems to have covered a body front and rear, from head to toes, all in one piece without bindings, wrapping or winding.

And, the Shroud of Turin was never saturated with a mixture of myrrh and aloes. For had it been, it would today be as stiff, brittle and inflexible as a piece of wall paneling.

Instead, today’s Shroud of Turin is as soft and flexible as any cloth should be, and today the shroud is able to be folded and unfolded without breaking into pieces like a crisp Saltine cracker.

When presented as the actual burial cloth of Christ Jesus, the Shroud of Turin is easily revealed to be a fake and a fraud.

A highly unlikely impostor,
the Shroud of Turin is nothing more than a cruel joke.

Any claim of the shroud's authenticity is deceptive to foolish pious and devout individuals who are on a transcendental quest, desperately seeking ways to physically establish contact with whatever they falsely perceive to be Holy and Divine.