As an experiment, hold out your hands and have someone wrap your wrists with a thread. Then break the thread. Try it a second time with two wrappers of thread. It is a bit harder but still doable. Now try it with ten wraps of thread. Soon you will need scissors to get free.
Do not miss the significance of the hundred pounds of Myrrh (John 19:39). It was the Jewish tradition to wrap the dead body in linen strips soaked in spices. Can you imagine the weight of the body once it is wrapped with linen and one hundred pounds of spices? The dead weight of Jesus' body was at least a hundred pounds and more likely a hundred sixty pounds for a fit man of thirty. Add to that another minimum of a hundred fifty ponds counting for the spices and the linen strips.
If you have ever seen a picture of a mummified person, you can quickly deduce that no one buried in that manner could unwrap the weighty casing themselves. The hundred pounds of spices point to the truth of the resurrect of Jesus.
