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18 forefathers and for voicing the truth. The chiefs vented their wrath by declaring: 'They said? 'Burn him and help your gods, if at all you mean to do anything. ' (Al - Anbiya 21, Verse: 69) Jesus Christ was nailed to the Cross because he disagreed with the Jewish Scribes over the interpretation of the Bible although he avowed openly: 'Think not that I have come to abolish the law, and the prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. ' (Mathew: Chapter 5, Verse: 17, 18) May I remind you that the central difference between Jesus Christ and the Jewish scholars was on the interpretation of the verse: 'And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven' (2 Kings; Chapter 2, Verse 11). The scholars stuck to the literal and apparent meanings of the verse. They believed that Elijah would descend bodily from heaven before the advent of Christ. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, asserted that this was an allegory, that the language was symboli c and not literal. He declared that Zacharia's son John was the Elijah who was to descend from heaven. Jesus knew full well that John was born on earth and had certainly not descended from heaven.