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efore the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which
had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.” “There they
made him a supper; and Martha served: ...” “Then took Mary a
pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet
of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: ...” (John: 12-1, 2, 3) [As
it is seen, the same one episode is narrated differently in the four
Gospels.]
10 — It is written in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first
verses of the first chapter of John: “... when the Jews sent priests
and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?” “And he
confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.”
“And they asked him, What then? Art thou E-li’as? And he saith,
I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.” (John: 1-
19, 20, 21)
On the other hand, according to the fourteenth verse of the
eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
stated about Yahyâ (E’li’as) in front of the people: “And if ye will
receive it, this is E-li’as, which was for to come.” (Matt: 11-14) And
again Matthew writes in the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth
verses of the seventeenth chapter: “And his disciples asked him,
saying, Why then say the scribes that E-li’as must first come?”
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, E-li’as truly shall first
come, and restore all things.” “But I say unto you, That E-li’as is
come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him
whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of
them.” “Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of
John the Baptist.” (Matt: 17-10, 11, 12, 13) As is understood from
this final passage, Yahyâ (John the Baptist) is the promised,
expected E-li’as. According to the Gospels of John and Matthew,
the statements of Yahyâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ contradict those of Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’. [For in the Gospel of John, Yahyâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
declares that he is not E-li’as. One of the reasons why Jews did not
accept Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ was because they had been expecting the
coming of E-li’as before him. The contradiction here is as obvious
as the sun.]
11 — In the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke, the angel who
gives the good news of hadrat Yahyâ to Zakariyya (Zachariah), or
Zach-a-ri’as) ‘alaihis-salâm’ recounts the qualities of Yahyâ, and
says in the seventeenth verse: “And he shall go before him in the
spirit and power of E-li’as, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; ...” (Luke:
1-17) This verse runs counter to the verses of Matthew narrated
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