There are two old cloths in Europe about 700 miles apart and both of them carry a dead man’s blood.
One is 14 ft long.
It’s kept in Turin in Italy and you’ve probably heard of it.
The other is about the size of a hand towel.
It’s locked in a cathedral in Spain and almost nobody has.
Jesus blood was reanalyzed by AI.
Nobody expected the findings.
I’m Alex Vail.
Last time I told you the blood was next.
So here it is because what the AI told us about those two cloths is impossible.
Tonight, it’s blood that went on first.
Blood that never turned black and a second cloth from your Bible laid right over the first.
Start with the cloth in Turin, the one most of us know as the Shroud of Turin.
It’s a strip of old linen 14 ft long with a faint shape of a man on it front and back.
He was laid on one half of it and the other half was folded over his head.
In 1532, that cloth nearly burned when a fire hit the chapel where it lay folded in a silver box.
The silver melted and dripped right through the folds and nuns patched the holes by hand.
Melted silver and the cloth survived.
Somebody up there wanted it kept.
If you were here for the last video, you know the man on that cloth.
He was whipped more than a hundred times with a whip that had little weights on the ends.
His scalp is full of punctures.
There’s a wound through each wrist and through the feet and there’s one wide wound in his side.
You don’t need a scientist to tell you who that is.
Your Bible tells it in the same order.
Matthew chapter 27 verse 26.
And when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Then come the thorns, then the nails, and then in John chapter 19 verse 34, a soldier’s spear in the side.
Last time we talked about the picture of the man.
Tonight we’re talking about the red because every one of those wounds has blood on it.
Real stains soaked right into the threads.
Well, everybody talks about the picture.
Nobody talks about the blood.
In October 1978, the church let a team of American scientists at the cloth for 5 days around the clock.
They photographed it, they x-rayed it, and they pressed sticky tape onto the stains to lift off tiny flakes of whatever was there.
5 days with that cloth around the clock.
I’d have skipped sleep, too.
Those tapes went home to America.
And we did something those scientists never could.
We gave every published test on that blood to Gemini, Google’s AI, and asked it what the tests really found.
So, first question.
Is the red on that cloth even blood? Because not everybody thought so.
Walter McCrone, a famous microscope expert in Chicago, looked at the tapes and said it was paint.
It was red earth, he said, the kind artists have ground up for thousands of years.
To him, the whole thing was a fake painted around 1355.
Now, I like a man with a strong opinion.
But hold on to that one.
Two other men got the same tapes, a doctor and a chemist named Alan Adler, who knew old blood better than almost anybody alive.
They ran test after test on those flakes.
Here’s Gemini’s verdict on their results.
They confirmed the stains consist of actual blood rather than paint or dye.
Real blood, not paint.
And the photographers on that same 1978 team shone ultraviolet light on the cloth.
The black light you’ve seen at a crime scene on TV.
Around the whip marks, pale rings lit up.
Those rings are the clear part of blood, the part that seeps out around a wound as it dries.
You can’t paint a ring that only shows under black light.
And McCrones red earth, it’s all over the cloth, stains or no stains.
And there’s far too little of it to paint a single drop.
So, we’ve got blood, real blood.
And now comes the big question.
When did it get there? Before the picture of the man or after? Last time, I gave you the answer.
Now, here’s the proof.
This is the one I’ve been waiting to tell you about.
Think about how you’d fake this.
Say you’re an artist in the Middle Ages and you paint the man first, the face, the body, the whole shape.
Then you add the blood on top, right where the wounds should be.
That’s the only order that makes sense.
Picture first, blood second.
Any painter would do it that way.
It’s the only way that works.
So, the doctor and the chemist checked.
They took a few threads with blood on them.
Then they dissolved the blood away with an enzyme, a chemical that eats the stuff blood is made of, and they looked at the linen underneath.
Gemini tells us what they saw.
They found that the linen fibers beneath the blood were completely clear.
That means clean thread with no picture under the blood.
The blood was on the cloth first and the picture came later all around it and never under it.
Or in Gemini’s words, the blood essentially acted as a physical shield.
That one stops me every time.
Blood first, picture second.
That’s backwards for a forger.
And there’s a second thing a forger gets backwards and it’s in the hands.
In the Middle Ages, paintings of the cross nearly always put the nails through the palms.
On this cloth, the blood comes from the wrists.
A French surgeon tested that in the 1930s and here’s what he found.
A nail through the palm tears right out under a man’s weight.
But a nail through the wrist holds.
So, the painters had it wrong for a thousand years.
The cloth didn’t.
And it fits the Bible like a key.
Luke tells us Joseph of Arimathea took the body down from the cross.
Luke chapter 23, verse 53.
And he took it down and wrapped it in linen.
A body just taken off a cross is still bleeding and that blood marks the linen before anything else can.
If you ask me, that’s exactly what a real burial looks like.
Rushed and bloody.
Blood first, picture second.
But the blood holds a stranger problem.
One you can see with your own eyes.
It’s color.
Cut your finger and bleed on a bandage and by tomorrow, the spot is brown.
Give it a few years and it’s nearly black.
That’s what old blood does every time.
The blood on the cloth in Turin is still red.
It’s not bright red, but it’s red.
After hundreds of years in a box, a fire, and more hands than anybody can count.
That shouldn’t be possible.
Old blood is supposed to go black.
The chemist, Alan Adler, had an answer.
According to Gemini, the stains contain unusually high levels of a compound called bilirubin.
Bilirubin is a yellow color your body makes when red blood cells break down.
And the body floods the blood with it when a man is beaten, whipped, and put into shock.
Mixed into old blood, it keeps the stain looking red.
So, what would that tell a doctor? Here’s Gemini.
This exceptionally high concentration of bilirubin indicates that the man whose blood is on the cloth suffered a severely traumatic, agonizing experience.
So, the color itself is telling you what they did to him.
That’s hard to hear.
And his suffering started before the cross, the night before, in the garden.
Luke chapter 22, verse 44.
His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Doctors have a name for sweating blood under terrible stress, and it’s rare, but it’s real.
Sweating blood the night before.
And the whip hadn’t even started.
And Isaiah saw all of it coming, 700 years before the cross.
Isaiah chapter 53, verse 5.
But he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
And then comes the line so many of us learned as children.
With his stripes, we are healed.
Stripes means whip marks.
And the red on that cloth is those stripes, still red.
So, what type of blood is it? In 1981, an Italian professor who studies blood at crime scenes typed it, and it came back type AB.
AB is the rarest blood type there is.
Only about four or five people in every hundred have it.
So, if another old cloth ever turns up with AB on it, that means something.
Skeptics say germs on old cloth can fool that test.
So, here’s where we are.
Real blood on the cloth first, still red, and type AB.
But, skeptics will always argue over one cloth.
So, what if there were two? If you want more of the Bible’s own evidence up close, subscribe before you forget.
Because the second cloth is where this gets strange.
Open your Bible to John chapter 20.
It’s Sunday morning, and Mary Magdalene runs to Peter and John to tell them the stone is gone from the tomb.
So, the two men run.
John gets there first.
He stoops down, looks in, and sees the linen clothes lying there.
Then Peter comes up behind him, and Peter doesn’t stop outside.
He goes in.
That’s Peter all over.
John looks, and Peter just walks right in.
And here’s what Peter sees in John chapter 20, verse 7.
And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Read that again.
There are two cloths.
The long linen for the body, and a smaller cloth that was about his head, folded up and set apart.
Most of us have read right past that verse our whole lives, and I know I did.
Some preachers say the folded napkin meant he’s coming back.
Either way, the Bible is clear.
There was a second cloth.
The old word for it is Sudarium.
It just means a face cloth.
The kind you’d lay over a dead man’s face.
So, think about it.
If one cloth was kept, why not the other one? There’s a cathedral in Spain that says it has that face cloth.
It’s been there for well over a thousand years, and it got there on the run.
The story comes from an old history book written by a bishop in Spain in the 1100s.
Hold that part loosely because that same bishop was known to forge a few church papers.
But, the cloth turns up exactly where he said it would.
He says the cloth left Jerusalem in 614 AD in a chest of holy things just ahead of the Persian army.
It ran through Egypt, across North Africa, and into Spain all the way to a stone room in the mountain town of Oviedo.
That room is still standing.
And here’s the part no old book can fake.
A Swiss crime expert studied the tiny grains of flour dust stuck in the cloth.
He reported grains from all along that road right back to an oak tree that only grows in the land around Jerusalem.
That’s my kind of proof.
Nobody forges flour dust.
The dust proves the road.
But, the paper trail starts on the 14th of March, 1075.
That’s the day a king rides into Oviedo, and riding with him is the most famous knight Spain ever had.
El Cid.
El Cid, right there in the room.
Quite a guest list for opening a box.
The king and everyone with him had heard about that chest their whole lives, but nobody alive had seen inside it.
So, they prayed to God, and they opened it.
Inside were the holy things carried all the way from Jerusalem, and among them was a small cloth stained with old blood.
Then, the king had the chest covered in silver with its treasures listed right in the metal.
One line names the holy face cloth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
That silver chest is still in Oviedo today, and the face cloth is kept right beside it.
Keep that year in your head, 1075.
We’re going to need it.
So, the face cloth has a birthday on paper in Spain in a king’s hands in 1075.
The next question is, what’s on it? And that’s where the crime scene doctors come in.
Here’s the first thing you notice.
The face cloth has no picture on it.
None at all.
It’s just stains, brown and faded, and they repeat as if the cloth was folded.
It’s about 34 in by 21, and they bring it out for the public 3 days a year.
For decades, a team of Spanish doctors and scientists studied those stains.
One of them teaches crime scene medicine.
He ran thousands of tests on a model head trying to make the same stains the same way.
Thousands of tests.
That’s a man who really wanted to be sure.
Gemini laid out what that team concluded.
First, how the man died.
The man died from asphyxiation.
In plain words, he couldn’t breathe.
That’s how a man dies on a cross.
You hang by your arms, and to take a breath, you have to push up on the nails in your feet.
When you can’t push anymore, your lungs fill with fluid.
And the stains on the facecloth are mostly that fluid from the lungs.
Gemini says it’s one part blood to six parts pulmonary fluid coming out through the nose and the mouth.
And it called that a death entirely consistent with crucifixion.
Six parts to one.
That is not a man who died in his bed.
You can see that same fight for air on the cloth in Turin.
The blood on the forearms runs in two directions as if the arms were held at two different angles.
Two angles.
Hanging then pushing up to breathe over and over.
In 2018, two scientists tested those flows with a volunteer and fake blood.
And they said the flows don’t fit one position on a cross.
And that’s exactly the point.
A man on a cross isn’t in one position.
He sags and he pushes up until he can’t anymore.
Second on Gemini’s list, the position of his head.
His head was slumped heavily forward tilted down toward his right shoulder.
That’s a man who died hanging upright.
Third, how the cloth was used.
And here’s Gemini again.
It was wrapped over the man’s head and pinned at the back of his neck while he was still hanging upright on the cross.
Pinned on while he was still up there.
That’s the detail that gets me.
Then Gemini put the hours after his death in order using both cloths.
About an hour after death while he’s still on the cross the facecloth goes on.
The body comes down and lies on its right side for about an hour.
Then it’s carried to the tomb, a walk of about 5 minutes, and the whole way someone’s hand pressed the folded cloth tightly against the man’s nose and mouth.
At the tomb, the face cloth comes off, and the long linen goes on.
Somebody loved that man enough to cover his face.
Think about that.
And at the back of the head, the face cloth has small stains from something sharp.
Matthew chapter 27 verse 29.
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head.
So we’ve got a face cloth, a crucified man, and thorns.
Now let’s put that face cloth next to the cloth in Turin.
An American doctor spent years laying pictures of the two cloths over each other.
He used a special light that lets you see one through the other.
Then he counted the places where the stains lined up with the face on the cloth in Turin.
He found 70 on the face and more than 50 on the back of the head and neck.
70 points on one face.
A court would call that a match.
In 2016, a sculptor and a crime scene doctor in Spain tried it again with a model of the head.
They found more than 20 matches from the forehead down to the chin, and most courts ask for eight to 12 to identify a person.
The nose on the face cloth runs about 3 inches, and so does the nose on the cloth in Turin.
And the blood on the face cloth, it’s type AB, just like Turin.
So we fed every published test on both cloths into Gemini and asked it one question.
Do these two sets of stains come from the same head? I had no idea what it would say.
None.
Jim and I listed five places where the two cloths agree and they’re on your screen.
The one that got me was the thorns, wounds on the forehead and at the back of the neck in the same places on both.
It listed where they don’t agree, too.
The stains in Turin are sharp from a body lying still.
The stains on the facecloth are soaked in from a man still upright and being moved.
Two different moments.
Then it gave its verdict and I’ll read it to you word for word.
The stains display an extraordinary degree of anatomical correlation that strongly suggests they were placed on the same physical head at different stages immediately following death.
The same head.
Nobody expected an AI to say that.
The same head at two different moments right after death.
One cloth went on his face while he still hung on the cross and the other went around his whole body in the tomb.
They’re the two cloths John saw on that Sunday morning.
And that’s where this stops being a curiosity because remember the date.
In 1988, three labs carbon-dated a corner of the cloth in Turin.
Carbon dating reads a slow clock inside anything that was once alive like the plant this linen was made from.
The lab said the cloth was made between 1260 and 1390 in the Middle Ages.
In other words, a fake.
That’s the date most of us were taught to believe and never questioned.
If you were here last time, you know which corner they cut and why that matters.
But the facecloth was in Spain being opened by a king in 1075.
That’s almost 200 years before the earliest date the labs gave the cloth in Turin.
So, you see the problem.
One of those dates has to give.
We asked Gemini flat out, “If the two cloths covered the same head, what happens to the 1988 date?” Here’s its answer.
The 1988 radiocarbon date for the shroud, 1260 to 1390, must be wrong.
And Gemini gave us the other side, too.
The face cloth has been carbon dated as well by three different labs, and they all came back around 700 AD.
That’s not the time of Jesus.
But, let’s play the labs’ game for a second.
Even at 700 AD, the face cloth is more than 500 years older than the date they gave the cloth in Turin.
And if the two cloths touched the same head, the cloth in Turin is at least that old, too.
The Middle Ages fake falls apart either way.
Gemini raised the last objection itself, and it’s the clever one.
Maybe a forger in the Middle Ages painted his blood to match the face cloth, so his fake would look real.
So, that’s where we are.
Two cloths, one head, and a date that won’t hold.
So, what’s the answer? Was it a genius in the Middle Ages painting a fake to match a cloth in Spain he could see three days a year? Was it pure chance, 70 points in the same rare blood? Or was it the same man, the one John says was wrapped in linen with a napkin about his head? Me? I’m going with the same man.
A painter matching blood he could barely see with stains that aren’t even paint? I don’t buy it.
Which one would you pick? Tell me in the comments.
Let’s add it up.
What have we actually got? Real blood on the cloth in Turin, and it went on first.
Blood that’s still red from a man they tortured.
A second cloth, the one John saw, with the same rare blood and the same wounds.
And a king opening it in Spain long before the date the labs gave.
That’s a lot of blood for a fake.
But here’s the part that matters to me more than any lab.
Go back to the wound in his side.
John chapter 19 verse 34.
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Blood and water.
On the cloth in Turin, the blood stains have that clear ring around them under the black light.
It’s the clear part of the blood, and the red side by side.
John didn’t know a thing about ultraviolet light.
He just told us what he saw.
He was standing right there.
That’s why the detail is so plain.
And when they laid him down, the blood from that wound ran around to his back.
You can see it on the cloth in Turin as a band of blood across the small of the back.
So, why does any of this blood matter? The Bible answers that one, too.
And the answer starts all the way back in Egypt.
Exodus chapter 12 verse 13.
The night of the first Passover, when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
God looks for the blood.
That’s the whole Bible in one line.
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22.
And without shedding of blood is no remission.
In plain words, there’s no forgiveness without it.
In 1 John chapter 1 verse 7, the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.
Peter wrote it, too.
1 Peter chapter 1 verse 18 says we weren’t bought back with silver and gold.
And verse 19 says what we were bought with.
With the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
That’s the blood.
Not a stain on a cloth, but the blood that was shed for you.
The clothes are evidence.
But the blood was never about the clothes.
And look at what John says was left in that tomb.
The linen.
Lying there.
And the facecloth.
Folded and set by itself.
Everything that touched him stayed behind.
And he didn’t.
The clothes are still here.
And the tomb is still empty.
You can argue with a carbon date all day long.
It’s a lot harder to argue with an empty tomb.
If you ever get to Oviedo, they bring the facecloth out 3 days a year starting on Good Friday.
Would you go? Oh, and that spear from John chapter 19? There’s a spearhead in Vienna they say is the one.
And Hitler wanted it.
That’s the next one.
I’m Alex Vale.
The old clothes aren’t done giving up their secrets.
And neither am I.
