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In addition, the Jews were perfectly right to refuse him247that title and office. They were certainly wrong to deny him his prophet hood, and criminal to have shed his innocent blood - as they and the Christians believe. “The Assembly of the Great Synagogue,” after the death of Simeon the just in 310 B.C., was replaced by the “Sanhedrin,” whose president had the surname of “Nassi” or Prince. It is astonishing that the “Nassi” who passed the judgment against Jesus (pbuh) , saying: “It is more profitable that one man should die rather than the whole nation should be destroyed,” [1] was a prophet! [2] If he were a prophet, how was it that he did not recognize the prophetic mission or the Messianic character of “the Messiah”?Here are, then the principal reasons why Jesus (pbuh)was not “the Son of Man” nor the Apocalyptic Messiah:(a) A messenger of God is not commissioned to prophesy about himself as a personage of some future epoch, or to foretell his own reincarnation and thus present himself as the hero in some great future dramaof the world. Jacob (pbuh) prophesied about “the Apostle of Allah,” [3] Moses (pbuh) about a prophet who would come after him with the Law, and Israel was exhorted to “obey him; [4] Haggai foretold Ahmad; [5] Malachi predicted the coming of the “Messenger of theCovenant” and of Elijah;[6] but none of the prophets ever did prophesy about his own second coming into the world. What is extremely abnormal in the case of Jesus (pbuh) is that he is made to pretend hisidentity with “the Son of Man,” yet he is unable to do in the least degree the work that the foretold “Son of[1] John xi. 50.[2] Idem, 51.[3] Gen. xlix. 10.[4] Deut. xviii. 15[5] Hag. ii. 7.[6] Mal. iii. 1, iv. 5.