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to the killing of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. Succumbing to the Jews’
insistence, Pilatus had to give them the permission. If miracles had
been seen, the Jews would possibly not go to Pilatus afterwards
and make the statement quoted above. For it is stated in Matthew
that the curtain of al-Aqsâ was torn apart, the rocks were split, the
graves were opened, and the dead were openly going about in the
city of Jerusalem. It is an easily discernible fact that the Jews could
not have used such terms as ‘mendacious’ or ‘misleader’ about Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’ in the presence of Pilatus after he and his wife, in
addition to already being against the killing of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’,
had seen so many miracles, or, at least, he would have
reprimanded them had they said so.
2 — When the Holy Ghost descended on the Apostles and the
Apostles began to speak various languages, it is written in the
second chapter of Acts, the people were bewildered and three
thousand people immediately believed in Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. Dead
people’s going out of their graves and going around in Jerusalem,
tearing of the curtain in the temple, quaking of the earth and
rifting of the rocks would have been more of a source of
bewilderment to people than the Apostles’ speaking several
languages. If it were true that Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ had shown himself
and displayed miracles, thousands of people would have believed
in him then. But the Gospels do not contain even any expression
implying at least that one person believed in him during the
occurrence of the so-called miracles. [This argument proves that
what is written in Matthew is not the truth.]
3 — Mark and Luke only state that the curtain of the statue was
torn. They do not refer to such incidents as the earthquake, rifting
of the rocks, opening of the graves, or resurrecting of the saints
and going around in the city. On the other hand, in the Gospel of
John, which is well-known for its far-fetched exaggerations of the
miracles of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’, there is no reference to any of these
incidents, neither to the tearing of the curtain of the temple, nor to
the earthquake or the sequential rifting of rocks, nor to the saints’
resurrecting and going about in the city. If these events were true,
Mark, Luke and John would apparently not remain silent in this
respect.
4 — According to Matthew’s account, none of the Apostles
was present at the crucifixion of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. But Mary
Magdalene, who had been following him from Galilee, Mary, the
mother of Jacob and Joses, and the mother of the sons of
Zebedee were present there and watched from a distance. (Matt:
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