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According to both Luke and John, the disciples see grave clothes in the tomb.

Luke states that strips of linen were " lying alone ", or " laid by themselves ", per the Greek, keimena mona, although the NRSV translation uses the phrase --" by themselves "-- instead of " alone ", and omits the word, " lying ".

John states that they were " lying ", or, per the NRSV, " lying there ".

These two descriptions may or may not imply the same thing.

Brown has argued that John is using a phrase that actually describes the linen as lying on a shelf within the tomb.

According to Luke, Jesus had been wrapped in a shroud, and this became the traditional view.

What became of the grave clothes after the disciples have seen them is not described in the Bible, though some works of the New Testament apocrypha do make mention of it.

A Roman Catholic tradition describes the shroud as being taken to Turin, becoming the Turin Shroud.