The Carpenter's Cloth

My friend Robin shared this with me this week and I thought it was awesome!

I have to admit that the passage in John 20 has fascinated me for many years. It really is one of my favorite passages in scripture. I've read it over and over again just imagining what it must have been like for Mary, Peter and John at the tomb that day.

I always wondered about the detail of the folded cloth that surrounded our Lord's face at his burial. Why was that detail worth mentioning?

Don't miss a detail even if you are familiar with this passage:

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.

So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.

Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.

Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.

Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (John 20:1-8)

Then go here --> THE CARPENTER'S CLOTH

It is finished, indeed!

Blessings,
Dori