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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 45 )A story flagrantly contradicting the statements of the other Evangelists (Matt. iv. 18-19, Mark i. 16-18). In St. Luke the story is altogether different: here Jesus(pbuh) knows Simon Peter before he is made a disciple (Luke iv. 38, 39); and the circumstance which led the master to enlist the sons of Jonah and of Zebedee in the list of his disciples is very strange to the other Evangelists (Luke vi 1-11). The four Gospels of the Trinitarian Churches contain many contradictory statements about the intercourse between the two cousin prophets. In the Fourth Gospel we read that the Baptist did not know who Jesus(pbuh)was until after his baptism, when a Spirit like a pigeon came down and dwelt in him ( John i); whereas St. Luke tells us that the Baptist, while a fetus in the womb of his mother, knew and worshipped Jesus (pbuh), who was also a younger fetus in the womb of Mary (Luke i. 44). Then, again, we are told that the Baptist while in prison, where he was beheaded (Matt. xi. xiv), did not know the real nature of the mission of Jesus (pbuh)!It is impossible to get at the truth, the true religion, from these Gospels, unless they are read and examined from an Islamic and Unitarian point of view. It is only then that the truth can be extracted from the false, and the authentic distinguished from the spurious. It is the spirit and the faith of Islam that can alone sift the Bible and cast away the chaff and error from its pages. Before proceeding farther to show that the Prophet foretold by the Baptist could be none other than Muhammad (pbuh) now remains the task of determining the identity of “that Prophet.” This article, therefore, must be divided into two parts, namely:a) The foretold Prophet was not Jesus Christ(pbuh);&b) The foretold Prophet was Muhammad (pbuh).