"Many people believe that Jesus did not [die on the cross]. Certain Gnostic Gospels, the Koran and some early Christian heretics--and perhaps the Priory of Sion--have taken the view that a substitute (possibly Simon of Cyrene) took his place,, while others think he suffered crucifiction but was taken down alive and that his 'resurrection' simly referred to him being healed of his wounds. Certainly Leonardo [da Vinci] believed he had been taken down from the cross and lived: the blood is still running on the image of the man on his faked 'Holy' Shroud of Turin, and blood does not continue to run on a corpse. (Even if our thesis is wrong, and Leonardo did not fake the Shroud, whoever did do so must have believed that Jesus did not die on the cross--and if, against all the evidence, it really is the Shroud of Jesus then it clearly proves that he was alive in the tomb.)"
The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, Lynn Pinkett and Clive Prince, Simon & Schuster, 1997, page 289.
The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, Lynn Pinkett and Clive Prince, Simon & Schuster, 1997, page 289.