Deliverance from the Cross — Page 14
Thus to their reaction to the parable of the defaulting husbandmen Jesus responded by reminding them that scripture had already prophecied that the corner stone of the edifice of prophethood, meaning the Chief of the Prophets, would be raised from among the children of Ishmael who were despised and rejected by the Bani-Israel. Jesus also prophesied the triumph of that Prophet over his enemies. But the Bani-Israel not only rejected Jesus, they sought to crucify him and thus they sealed their own doom. The door of prophethood, which is the greatest bounty bestowed upon mankind by God, was closed to them and thus after Jesus there has been no prophet among the Bani-Israel. The manner of the birth of Jesus was a divine signal that prophethood was about to be transferred from the house of Jacob to the house of Ishmael. 14