Is the Shroud of Turin Real?

Shroud of Turin: Is It Authentic? [Excerpts]

An amazing cloth shroud….The cloth has a realistic imprint that looks like a man’s face. According to tradition, the shroud was miraculously formed when it covered Jesus’s body in the tomb. Some people quote Matthew:27:59And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
See All..., Mark:15:46And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
See All..., and Luke:23:53And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
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These verses seem to indicate that a single cloth was used to wrap Jesus when He was taken off the cross. But was this same cloth wrapped around Jesus’s body when it was placed in the tomb?

After the crucifixion, Jesus’s body would have been bloody from Pilate’s whipping (Matthew:27:26Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
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See All...). More blood flowed from the spear wound in His side (John:19:34But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
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Now did this cloth remain on Jesus’s body as it was carried to the grave? From a cursory glance at the accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, you might think so. However, John reveals more details (John:19:38And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
See All...–40). Joseph of Arimathea took the body prior to its placement in the grave. Later Nicodemus joined him, applying about 75 pounds of spices and wrapping the body in several strips of linen.

To apply the spices, the caretakers must have removed the bloody linen covering Christ at the cross. We have no reason to assume that they reused this single cloth. Instead, we would expect them to follow Jewish customs of cleanliness.

Also, no Gospel author mentions a second single-cloth linen around Jesus’s body—only a small cloth wrapped around Jesus’ face and several other linen strips around the rest of his body (John:20:7And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
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At Jesus’ resurrection, both John and Luke mention the strips of linen and the cloth on His face (Luke:24:12Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
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See All...–7). They mention nothing else. We have no reason to assume any other cloths were present in the tomb. To do so requires us to impose our ideas on the Bible, contrary to reasonable inferences, which is not the way to “rightly divide the word of truth” (2 Timothy:2:15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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The Bible, read carefully in context, rules out the Shroud of Turin as Jesus’s burial cloth.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v4/n2/problematic-apologetics