A Thorny Issue

By Mike Hall, July 19, 2023

An older fella was trimming overgrown branches from a few Russian olive trees yesterday.

While depositing them in trash bags, he was pricked by a number of feisty thorns.

This comes after he just completed reading A Doctor at Calvary by Pierre Barbet. The highly impactful book was written long ago by an expert who examined The Shroud of Turin.

The guy yesterday (yours truly) recoiled at the first thorn and was fixing to lament the instant pain when a word popped into his head…’Really?’

In that moment, Doctor Barbet’s description of The Man of the Shroud and His experience with thorns came to me.

This Man had seventy thorn wounds to His head…and reportedly didn’t utter a word as they were driven into His scalp with merciless blows from a soldier.

Really?

Yes and surely a lesson for us the next time a stubbed toe, thorny branch, or other pain pays a visit.

For anyone thinking The Shroud is a medieval forgery due to the carbon dating fiasco in 1988, this book and recent studies have shown it to be false. As Barbet and The STURP team that intensely studied the cloth determined, no artist in history or today could have produced this image.