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38 JESUS IN INDIA to the courts; a Roman court in one case and a British court in the other. But in the end, they were both saved and the designs of both the Jewish and the Muslim clerics failed. God intended to raise great communities for both the Messiahs, and to defeat the designs of their enemies. In short, the fourteenth century after Moses and the fourteenth century after our Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, are both hard and trying and, in the long run, full of blessings for their respective Messiahs. And from among the testimonies found in the Gospels, which testify to Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, remain- ing safe from death on the cross is the one narrated in Matthew 26:36-46. It relates that, having been informed by revelation of his impending arrest, Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, prayed to God all night, crying and prostrating. And it was nec- essary that prayers offered in such humility, for which Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, was given ample time, must have been accepted because God never turns down the prayer of a chosen one when he prays in distress. How then could the prayer of Jesus, the Messiah, have been turned down, which he offered all night long in a state of anguish and distress, particu- larly when Jesus, the Messiah, himself had announced that his Father in heaven listened to his prayers. How could we say that God listened to his prayers if this prayer offered in such distress was not accepted? From the Gospels it is also learnt that Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, was certain in his heart that this prayer of his had been accepted and that he was very much relying on this prayer of his. That is why when he was arrested and put on the cross, and found the circumstances apparently contrary to