“And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.”
and the napkin, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself — the napkin (soudarion) rolled up separately suggests deliberate arrangement by a conscious agent, not grave robbers. This detail points to Jesus' intentional, dignified departure from death. The spatial separation of head-cloth from body-cloths implies the resurrection body's independent reality, neither bound by burial clothes nor abandoned in disorder.
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