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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 80 )nasha,” and then not be able to save his people except Zacchæus, a Samaritan woman, and a few other Jews, including the Apostles, who were mostly slain afterwards on his account. Probably whatJesus(pbuh)said was “The Son of Man will come to seek and recover what is lost.” For in Muhammad (pbuh) alone the believing Jews as well as the Arabs and other believersfound all that wasirremediably lost and destroyed— Jerusalem and Makkah , all the promised territories; many truths concerning the true religion; the power and kingdom of God; the peace and blessing that Islam confers in this world and in the next. However, one more quotation will suffice, namely: “The Son of Man shall be delivered unto the hands of men.”34 etc., and all the passages where he is made the subject of passion and death. Such utterances are put into the mouth of Jesus(pbuh) by some fraudulent non-Hebrew writer with the object of perverting the truth concerning “the Son of Man” as understood and believe by the Jews, and of making them believe that Jesus (pbuh) of Nazareth was the Apocalyptical triumphant Saviour, but he would only appear on the Day of the Last Judgement. It was a policy and a cunning propaganda of dissuasion, and then of persuasion, made purposely for the Jews. However, the fraud was discovered, and the Jewish Christians belong to the Church which held these Gospels to be divinely revealed. For nothing could be more repugnantto Jewish national aspiration and religioussentiment than to present to them the expected Messiah, the great Barnasha, in the person of Jesus(pbuh) whom the Chief Priests and the Elders condemned to be crucified as a seducer! It is quite evident, therefore, that Jesus(pbuh)never appropriated the title of “the Son of Man;” but he reserved it only for Muhammad (pbuh). Here are a few of the arguments:34 Matt. xvi. 21; xvii. 12, etc.