Muhammad in the Bible — Page 9
9 It also told that God would put his words in his mouth. The New Testament gospels do not consist of words which God put in Jesus’s mouth. They only tell us his story and what he himself and his disciples said and did. The Holy Quran, on the other hand, says: Say, O Muhammad, I am a man like unto you: Only the word of God come unto me. (The Holy Quran 18: 111) The prophecy spoke of “words which he shall speak in my name. ” Strange as it may seem, there is not a single example of words which Jesus may be said to have received from God with the command to pass them on. The Holy Quran, on the other hand, specificall y claimed to be the word from God. The words of the Lord had announced that the Promised One would be a prophet. Jesus, according to the Christian evangelists, did not claim to be a prophet. Matthew reports that he asked his disciples: “Whom do men say that I the son of man. . ?” Peter replied that he was the Christ. the Son of the living God. (Matthew 16:13 - 16) Thus Jesus denied being either John the Baptist or Elias or one of the prophets. Muhammad was proclaimed as not only a prophet but also as “like unto Moses,” when the Quran said: Verily We have sent to you a Messenger, who is a witness over you, even as we sent a Messenger to Pharaoh. (The