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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 47 )Although the Christian Churches have made of Jesus Christ (pbuh) a God or son of a God, the fact that he was circumcised like every Israelite, and baptized by St. John like an ordinary Jew, proves the case to be just the reverse. The words interchanged between the Baptist and the baptized in the River Jordan appear to be an interpolation or a commonalty, for they are contradictory and of a deceptive character. If Jesus(pbuh)were in reality the person whom theBaptist foretold as “more powerful” than himself,so much so that he was “not worthy to kneel and unloose his shoes,” and that “he would baptize with the Spirit and fire,” there would be no necessity nor any sense in his being baptized by his inferior in the river like an ordinary penitent Jew! The expression ofJesus(pbuh), “It behooves us to fulfil all the justice,” is incomprehensible. Why and how “all the justice” would be accomplished by themif Jesus(pbuh)were baptized?This expression is utterly unintelligible. Itis either an interpolation or a clause deliberately mutilated.